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How do I change my IP address?
What's the easiest way to change it?
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IP addresses do not contain your physical location or personal details. There's little or nothing to be gained by changing it. Mobile/wireless broadband connections, smartphones, tablets etc use 'dynamic IP addressing' anyway. You're assigned a different 'available' one every time you log-on. And it can even 'drift' during any session. Routers can be 'static IP address' (it IS fixed) or dynamic. Check the technical details if you need to know. I know many people feel that the fact that any website you visit is logged against your IP address (and even dynamic ones retain the address in use at any particular time) is a form of 'monitoring' or 'snooping'. Fact is NO electronic communication is truly secure. It's also a fact that nobody actually uses IP addressing to identify an individual without very good reason and authority. If you want to view websites and leave no trace of presence you need to use a proxy-server or create 'virtual machines' which is pretty involved, and mostly pointless. Even then, you are not truly 'invisible', and if someone uses the internet for a seriously subversive purpose whilst hiding behind a proxy server, it is still traceable...but it's much harder. Spyware is somehow put onto your machine, it will send the new address the first time it 'rings out', so changing it won't prevent malicious websites stealing data and hacking your machine if it's already on your machine...use antivirus software scans and let them delete anything suspicious. Bottom line is you can't use the internet without generating and using a theoretically traceable ip address. Just as you can't use a mobile phone without the date, time, your geographic location and details about who you are connected to being logged. Our 'protection' lies in the fact that for nearly all of us, nearly all the time, the people who have access to this data/meta-data aren't even remotely interested in what we're doing or saying. There's been a case going on in the UK for well over a year now concerning the press hacking phones to obtain information about celebrites etc. As if we didn't KNOW they could do, did it, and are doing it!!
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"IP" stand for Internet Provider. This is the company that provides the service to you. The number is unique to them and you and was generated when you signed up for service with that provider.
Can that number be changed, I'm not sure you would need to speak with someone from your internet service company. You would probably have to have a pretty good reason to have this number changed as I'm sure it involves more than just generating a new number.
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