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Can a hacker get into your computer if they have your ISP or IP address?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1180751" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Mods/Admins and site owners can see your IP and ISP information. No hacking required. It's part of connecting to a website. Ordinary members do not usually see this information, however.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>I think she's a full of baloney, or she knows one of the forum mods/admins and is being fed information. And that's coming from someone who is an IT professional with decades of experience in network administration, not an anonymous poster on a forum.</p><p></p><p>And just because someone can see your public IP, doesn't give them access to your machine. Most modems act as a NAT firewall at a minimum. But even if you could get past that, Windows is firewalled by default and OS X doesn't respond on any well known ports, nor does it have any vulnerabilities that would leave it open to a hacker (providing that it's up to date on patches). So, in effect, someone knowing your public IP doesn't make you vulnerable to hackers (although it does degrade your anonymity to an extent).</p><p></p><p>Regardless, this isn't a suggestion or feedback about this forum, so I've moved the post appropriately.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1180751, member: 24098"] Mods/Admins and site owners can see your IP and ISP information. No hacking required. It's part of connecting to a website. Ordinary members do not usually see this information, however. I think she's a full of baloney, or she knows one of the forum mods/admins and is being fed information. And that's coming from someone who is an IT professional with decades of experience in network administration, not an anonymous poster on a forum. And just because someone can see your public IP, doesn't give them access to your machine. Most modems act as a NAT firewall at a minimum. But even if you could get past that, Windows is firewalled by default and OS X doesn't respond on any well known ports, nor does it have any vulnerabilities that would leave it open to a hacker (providing that it's up to date on patches). So, in effect, someone knowing your public IP doesn't make you vulnerable to hackers (although it does degrade your anonymity to an extent). Regardless, this isn't a suggestion or feedback about this forum, so I've moved the post appropriately. [/QUOTE]
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