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hackers


Question Posted Saturday May 2 2009, 12:11 am

if someone hacks onto your computer from theirs would the ip address for when they do stuff come up as yours or theirs?

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theymos answered Saturday May 2 2009, 5:20 pm:
What kind of "stuff"? They could use your computer as a proxy to protect themselves while they do something illegal; in that case your IP address would be visible to the victim.

If the connection is
Hacker <-> You <-> Victim
then you can see the Hacker's IP address and the Victim can see your IP address. More likely the connection will be
Hacker <-> Zombie <-> You <-> Zombie <-> Victim
In that case each member of the chain can only see IPs of those adjacent to themselves.

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