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Hackers can get your IP through Skype by just sending a link, no click required (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] Album@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FTA:

The attack could pose a serious risk to activists, political dissidents, journalists, those targeted by cybercriminals, and many more people. At minimum, an IP address can show what area of a city someone is in. An IP address can be even more revealing in a less densely populated area, because there are fewer people who could be associated with it.

Just because your privacy isn't valuable doesn't mean everyone else's isn't.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

An IP isn't private. It is literally your network's public ID. If you want to hide it you use a proxy, not relying on big brother corporations.

Also, sharing your IP is somehow okay if it is with Microsoft who absolutely sell your info to data hoarders and advertisement companies, but not whoever you're chatting with? If anything, using p2p is more private because then you ONLY share the IP with the recipient.