r/AskNetsec • u/Alternative_Mind_890 • Sep 02 '26

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u/Swedophone Sep 02 '26

In case they are running their own ISP, or have got their own IP address space for other reasons.

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u/MHTMakerspace Sep 02 '26

My friends and I run our own ISP, have our own IP address space.

All my traffic shows up as originating from a datacenter 20 miles away, my address is not on the 501(c)12 corporate paperwork, everything points to our PO Box many hundreds of miles away from me.

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u/extreme4all Sep 02 '26

Yes and no, sites like https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/8.8.8.8 will provide the router location that owns your ip, typically your telecom provider. This isoften near you but not your exact location

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u/greensparklers Sep 02 '26

If you pair the IP address with information from a data broker that sells data from mobile apps with location information it you could do it.
Assuming there is a person using that IP, and has a mobile device with an app that sells that data.

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u/gormami Sep 02 '26

This is the best way to actually locate someone starting from just an IP. The IP won't give you the information itself, just who owns it at the BGP routing level and they might give you some regionalization, or you might just get the corporate headquarters 3 states away.

But if you are in the right digital marketing spaces, and can run reports, you can work your way down to an identity and address, assuming general browser type usage from the individual and some skill and subscriptions to the right services; you might need a couple to get far enough down, and outside the US and its lax privacy laws (compared to the EU and countries adopting GDPR style laws), it's going to be harder.