What types of IP addresses are there, which ones should I worry of being leaked, and what can attack
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. IP addresses serve two main functions: network interface identification, and location addressing.
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) defines an IP address...
From an individual perspective, there really isn't much of a risk to an IP being known by others. Your IP is already logged everywhere when you connect to the internet. It isn't 2006 anymore
Use a vpn when you're using public wifi
That doesn’t answer my question particularly, but as he said why use a VPN when there’s no risk?
Hmmm I feel like your question is asked very poorly
An Ip address is a numberical label to your device when connected to the network
And your ip address won’t really matter if it gets leaked or etc… kinda like what w33t said its logged everywhere and there isn’t much risk
Now you would want to use a VPN to encrypt traffic and vpn hides your ip address
Thank you very much
No risk to someone knowing your home IP doesn't equate to no risk with public WiFi
If we're talking about public WiFi, there is more overall risk. We rely on TLS/HTTPS nowadays to protect the data between your device and the server. In a perfect world with correct configurations, you could login to your bank on public WiFi with malicious threat actors on the network and you would be perfectly fine.
The problem comes with trusting the WiFi operator to not use shit settings and trusting the service you're interacting with to not do a doo doo shit job with their TLS settings.
I have a VPN on my phone, but I rarely use it. I'm generally on a mobile network.
Would I trust my connection to my bank over Starbucks WiFi? Yeah. Would I trust my connection to Jim and Bob's Dildo Factory over gas station WiFi in a large city? Ehh probably not.
There are a lot of great TLS/HTTPS technologies out there to really bulletproof a web server's configuration, but that entire configuration falls to the service you're connecting to.
I don’t think you could have said it any better, and I guess VPN also can at the very least hide the broad geographical region you’re in but it’s more so to encrypt traffic for attacks like MiTM which is in disregard of IP. But yeah for the TLS I believe TOR browser has several TLS connections for anonymity, but apart from that thank you very much, and I’ll make sure to use a VPN in regards to Jim and Bob’s Dildo Factory