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I find it pretty funny these days how often I see people getting paranoid about their IP address when back in the 90โ€™s/early 2000โ€™s it was common to show other people their own IP in chat rooms or on forums to scare them and it didnโ€™t work because most people understood it didnโ€™t matter.

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It still seems pretty stupid to most of us. Itโ€™s still common knowledge that knowing someoneโ€™s IP is meaningless, itโ€™s mostly kids and the technologically inept who donโ€™t understand this in my experience.

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Why is it meaningless? It can be very dangerous for people to know your IP address - especially if youโ€™re one of the many people who are โ€œscaredโ€ of it (because the dangers pertain mostly to them).

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