Comments on: Security problems are forever http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Best of DtheK | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever/comment-page-1#comment-5369 Best of DtheK | Defending The Kingdom: Security and Privacy in Your Digital Life Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:04:18 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever#comment-5369 [...] A few posts from the Defending the Kingdom archive, which summarize well the reasons I keep this blog. Why security is a problem that will, unfortunately, always be with us. [...] [...] A few posts from the Defending the Kingdom archive, which summarize well the reasons I keep this blog. Why security is a problem that will, unfortunately, always be with us. [...]

]]> By: Ian Saxon http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever/comment-page-1#comment-1625 Ian Saxon Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:03:26 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever#comment-1625 Your IP address identifies your computer on a network so that it and others can communicate with each other. The network could be 5 computers connected to each other in your house, or it could be the internet. Not a lot is revealed by IP addresses, although they can often be matched to a physical location. See http://www.ip-adress.com/ for some info that can be gleaned from an IP address. Hope that helps, Ian Your IP address identifies your computer on a network so that it and others can communicate with each other. The network could be 5 computers connected to each other in your house, or it could be the internet.

Not a lot is revealed by IP addresses, although they can often be matched to a physical location. See http://www.ip-adress.com/ for some info that can be gleaned from an IP address.

Hope that helps,

Ian

]]> By: Champion http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever/comment-page-1#comment-1624 Champion Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:32:28 +0000 http://www.defendingthekingdom.com/archives/security-problems-are-forever#comment-1624 What, exactly, is revealed by a computer's IP address? What, exactly, is revealed by a computer’s IP address?

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