ip address question

[tyerone]

ok so as title states, in SA most of us dont have fixed IP's, my question is it possible to track someone via ip ie if you get their ip address could you track it back to the telkom exchange and to a phone number it was assigned to ie giving you all the detials of where the house it came from ect???

hope that all made sense

 

[sitnet]

ok so as title states, in SA most of us dont have fixed IP's, my question is it possible to track someone via ip ie if you get their ip address could you track it back to the telkom exchange and to a phone number it was assigned to ie giving you all the detials of where the house it came from ect???

hope that all made sense

Hm I don't know if so much info is retrievable (legally) but if you have the ip address you could find where the house is using this little tool: http://www.geoiptool.com

For what reason do you want all this info?

 

[tyerone]

Hm I don't know if so much info is retrievable (legally) but if you have the ip address you could find where the house is using this little tool: http://www.geoiptool.com

For what reason do you want all this info?

want to know if i download something can it be traced back??? ie to my exact house ect????

 

[sitnet]

want to know if i download something can it be traced back??? ie to my exact house ect????

If the person or company goes to the police and is able to make a case, and there is sufficient reason to believe you are downloading (and selling) illegal content, yes Telkom can provide the needed info to track you down (If I am wrong please tell me). But if you are worried about downloading pirate content, don't be. The chances of a company or person actually able to make a case against a single person downloading pirate content is 10000000 to 1. It's only when you start selling pirate content that there is a sufficient risk of prosecution.

When it comes to other illegal content like i.e. pr0n, I would be very careful as there is much more being done about cases in these categories.

So in other words, daily there are millions of people only in South Africa downloading and using pirate content, the chances of you being tracked to your house by Telkom is almost nothing

 

[cavedog]

want to know if i download something can it be traced back??? ie to my exact house ect????

Yes they need to sepina your ISP to get that info.

 

[Tsimo]

if you want to you can look at a program named tor (http://www.torproject.org/)
it is a traffic piping service that randomly connects to several piers and routes your traffic through them to your destination (http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en). this means that your download cannot easily be tracked to your PC since the intermediate piers do not keep logs. all the logs should show is a connection to a random system. if you dont want to install and configure it then you can use the portable option. (http://portabletor.sourceforge.net/)

 

[SuPaStA]

If the person or company goes to the police and is able to make a case, and there is sufficient reason to believe you are downloading (and selling) illegal content, yes Telkom can provide the needed info to track you down (If I am wrong please tell me). But if you are worried about downloading pirate content, don't be. The chances of a company or person actually able to make a case against a single person downloading pirate content is 10000000 to 1. It's only when you start selling pirate content that there is a sufficient risk of prosecution.

When it comes to other illegal content like i.e. pr0n, I would be very careful as there is much more being done about cases in these categories.

So in other words, daily there are millions of people only in South Africa downloading and using pirate content, the chances of you being tracked to your house by Telkom is almost nothing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7568642.stm

In the case heard at London's Patents County Court the game maker won damages of £6,086.56 plus costs of £10,000.

 

[gregmcc]

If need be Telkom can always trace IP's back to a body.

 

[tyerone]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7568642.stm

yes but that person was the person that put the file ie uploading it in the first place, not the person that downloaded it.

 

[SuPaStA]

yes but that person was the person that put the file ie uploading it in the first place, not the person that downloaded it.

What do you think you do when you download a torrent, you upload aswell as download.

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

ok so as title states, in SA most of us dont have fixed IP's, my question is it possible to track someone via ip ie if you get their ip address could you track it back to the telkom exchange and to a phone number it was assigned to ie giving you all the detials of where the house it came from ect???

hope that all made sense

yip..

they can get the phone # and details of account holder + adsl account detais quick quick.

 

[tyerone]

ok thanks guys got all the answer i need...... ** TOPIC CLOSED**