finding home address with IP

whowillibe

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here's the situation -

a "friend" of mine says that he has information (names, addresses) that he was able to gain from individuals IP addresses from a blog tracker. This "friends" brother is a computer GENIUS (owns a computer consulting firm, has more letters after his name then I've ever seen).....is it possible for this information to be gained....legally or illegally?

If so....what can be LEGALLY gained, and what can be ILLEGALLY gained? this "friend" says that he was able to get names and addresses of all the users that visited his blog.....is this possible? legal? illegal?
 
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To answer this though, you cannot find someones home address just from an IP address. Geolocation by ip address can barely tell you what city a person is in, the only way police could track it is if they had a warrant for the ISP to tell who was leased what IP address at what time. Not something that someone from the general public could get into. This "friend" is either a blatant liar, or completely crazy.
 
thanks......so they couldn't even find a name? even illegally?

so if they do have this information....they did something illegal?

actually....it may be brought up in a court hearing in the near future, so I'm just trying to understand what they can and can't do, legally or illegally.

thanks for the response
 
thanks......so they couldn't even find a name? even illegally?

so if they do have this information....they did something illegal?

actually....it may be brought up in a court hearing in the near future, so I'm just trying to understand what they can and can't do, legally or illegally.

thanks for the response
No way you can get the name, legally or not. Unless you have them signing a guest book or similar of course.
 
You can try and resolve IP's to a certain area, however since most ISP use dynamic IP's this is often fairly inaccurate. To give you an idea my IP gives results from around a 50 mile radius and one of Liverpool, which is about 150 miles away. It's the ISP's responsibility to keep the details of customers private and trying to extract such data is against the law here and undoubtedly the same applies in the US.
 
you can't collect information without the persons permission. That is why if you sign up to a site there is a tick box that you have to aggree to if they want to email you or send the information elsewhere or anything like that, they need your permission to send the information here, there and everywhere or use the information to contact you. If they do, it is against the law.

And you can't get information from you from your IP in the first place because of the reasons listed
 
Sounds like a kid who is trying to Haxxor someones computer and impress a girl on how he knows where she lives. *Shock*

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