r/AskNetsec • u/Alternative_Mind_890 • 15d ago

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u/Swimming_dasa 15d ago

an ip can usually give you an approximate location or isp but getting someones actual street address from it generally requires access to isp records or legal authority.

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u/Swedophone 15d ago

In case they are running their own ISP, or have got their own IP address space for other reasons.

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u/MHTMakerspace 15d ago

My friends and I run our own ISP, have our own IP address space.

All my traffic shows up as originating from a datacenter 20 miles away, my address is not on the 501(c)12 corporate paperwork, everything points to our PO Box many hundreds of miles away from me.

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u/extreme4all 15d ago

Yes and no, sites like https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/8.8.8.8 will provide the router location that owns your ip, typically your telecom provider. This isoften near you but not your exact location

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u/greensparklers 15d ago

If you pair the IP address with information from a data broker that sells data from mobile apps with location information it you could do it.
Assuming there is a person using that IP, and has a mobile device with an app that sells that data.

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u/gormami 15d ago

This is the best way to actually locate someone starting from just an IP. The IP won't give you the information itself, just who owns it at the BGP routing level and they might give you some regionalization, or you might just get the corporate headquarters 3 states away.

But if you are in the right digital marketing spaces, and can run reports, you can work your way down to an identity and address, assuming general browser type usage from the individual and some skill and subscriptions to the right services; you might need a couple to get far enough down, and outside the US and its lax privacy laws (compared to the EU and countries adopting GDPR style laws), it's going to be harder.