(June 19, 2019 at 12:25 pm)LastPoet Wrote: If anyone wants to attack me, my IP adress is 127.0.0.1.
I will grab me coat.
For those who didn't understood the joke.
127.0.0.1 is the local IP address of the computer system itself but not the network card of the computer (The IP address of a network card usually begin by 192.168 and someone must be into your network to communicate with this IP address).
That means someone who want to hack a computer with IP address 127.0.0.1 would hack its own computer.
This address (127.0.0.1) is used by the computer to communicate with itself while the IP address of your network card (The IP address of a network interface card usually begin by 192.168 and someone must be into your network to communicate with this IP address) is used to communicate with your modem.
When the modem receive packets it will analyze these and if there are destinated to your desktop with the IP address 192.168.1.2 the modem would transmit the packets to your computer.
If the modem does receive packets destinated to the IP address 192.168.1.3 that is the laptop of your sister. It would send these to the laptop.
If the modem does receive packets destinated to the IP address 192.168.1.4 that is the tablet of your brother. It would send these to the tablet.
Local IP addresses (Those in format 192.168.X.X in our example) aren't used to communicate over Internet but inside your local network (Home network in our example).
If you say to a man you live in the flat 827 it wouldn't be able to reach you if it doesn't know the street of the municipality in which you live.
Local IP addresses used by network interface card are like apartments numbers.
(June 21, 2019 at 3:33 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: If your ISP cares about you using Tor, unless you're in certain countries, you need a different ISP. My ISP is Comcast and they aren't going to do dick if I use Tor.
Do you know it is possible to have an ISP from another country than our because it does exist ISPs with communication over satellite if you live in a country with only one ISP ?
But someone using a Satellite to use Internet need to be cautious because it can be illegal in the country or needing an authorization.
Communications over Satellite can be easily monitored and if the authorities of the country in which you live can do so you would be detected and certainly placed on a Watch-list. Even if the authorities of the country aren't able to decipher packets send over Tor they can have ideas about what you do because of packets sizes.
If they are looking for a dissident posting messages against the regime in a Tor forum.
They could understand you are this dissident if they see a correlation between timestamps of messages posted and a time correlation with interceptions of your communications over satellite.
If they saw the dissident was posting messages at each time you was connected they could understand this person is you with timestamp and packets analysis even if they can't decipher packets.
