Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?
Enoril@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Depends of where you lives. if you have only 1 house per km² around you and your isp box provide predictable SSID name, you could be easily found.
Google street cars capture also the wifi network around them when taking street photos.
And getting your ip can connect the people directly to your box. A trace route command to this IP could return intermediate equipment of your isp, helping to pinpoint your town or even your street.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I think this is a little confused. Unless your WiFi is open someone seeing your network can’t find out what the WAN IP is.
“Connect” is a strong word here. Yeah, they can send traffic at it. But that shouldn’t do anything.
This is the most reasonable concern. Depending on your ISP and location the IP itself or packet tracing you can get a pretty good idea of the user’s location.
Enoril@jlai.lu 1 day ago
I don’t know for you but, by default, all our ISP box here broadcast an “open” SSID that allows any customers of this ISP to login with their ISP credentials on the ISP box around them (except if the customers switch off this function). That allow a customer with a dead box or in travel to still have internet. (traffic is of course segregated).
So if you know the ISP brand via the IP range and find a isolated home with this provider ssid visible, you found the address of the IP. Again that work only with low number of houses or not often use ISP.
Connect
kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Does someone connecting to this have an IP highly correlated with your non-open network? Because if so then yes, that is fairly concerning.
Enoril@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Good question. Let me check that.
Well following their documentation, it’s a distinct IP in a specific IP range.
Good!