Recently, a big event has happened on the Internet. I believe all the high-intensity surfing partners know it. Now the mainstream social platforms and chat software have announced to display the IP ownership of netizens when posting or leaving messages. The big factories, which fight openly and secretly on weekdays, are surprisingly united in this matter. The first is the national short video entertainment app Tiktok. If you leave a message in the video comment area, you will find a [IP territory] next to the avatar.
Originally unknown netizens can now recognize each other from the comment area.
So, IP ownership is a good function.
In addition, the user's personal interface will also display [IP territory], and the whole network can see where you come from.
Some netizens said that this is good. Online appointment is no longer a dream.
Of course, ridicule belongs to ridicule. Xiao Lei doesn't advocate online appointment. After all, he won, went to jail and lost, and went to the hospital.
Wechat, which we usually use the most, does not display the real IP address in the personal interface.
However, after the comments in the article comment area are selected, they will still show their "foot".
Not only wechat and Tiktok, but also smaller apps such as xiaohongshu and Douban have launched the [IP territory] display function.
As for Xiao Lei, he doesn't have any opinion about the online function. He even wants to agree with both hands.
But from the online feedback, it seems that many netizens can't accept their IP ownership and run naked.
Naked surfing, invasion of privacy and other voices are heard everywhere. Some people prefer to uninstall the software to ensure safety, while others say that the disadvantages of the function outweigh the advantages.
Spicy? Is this [IP territory] that explodes the whole network really so terrible?
Today, let's talk about IP ownership online.
The IP address is your Internet number
"IP address" can be said to be a common word on the Internet, but Xiao Lei found that many people still don't understand its specific meaning.
So, let's simply talk about what an IP address is as usual.
When we go shopping, we always have a place of departure and destination.
Surfing the Internet is the same. Every device that accesses the Internet must also have a house number to connect with each other in the vast sea.
The IP address is the house number assigned to each device.
For the simplest example, we used to use online chat tools to connect with friends, which is essentially the interconnection between one IP and another.
If we don't have an IP address, we don't know who is the sender and who is the receiver. There's a smell in the wechat drifting bottle.
But surfing the Internet is no different from blind flies. You will never find the information and people you need.
At this time, the existence of IP address is very necessary.
It has two main functions. One is the "house number" function, which tells other netizens where you are.
The other is the addressing function, which is used to visit other IP addresses.
If you really can't understand it, you can review a wave of "coral QQ" that was very popular before.
Cough, a little exposed
Specifically, coral insect QQ is the magic revision of Tencent QQ, which has two open and hang level functions.
One is to display invisible friends, so that the diving monster has no place to hide. The other is to display the friend IP and open the chat window to know where the other person is.
This is obvious. On the surface, we chat with our friends in the QQ window.
But in the eyes of the "Internet", in fact, it is just two IPS flirting with each other.
IP territories are open, and these talents need to panic
Seeing here, some small partners may be very confused. Since the IP address is like the Internet house number, it should be private.
Just like in reality, we don't want strangers to know where they live.
Indeed, in theory, IP addresses are private and should not be published at will.
However, with the popularity of some new technologies, the location of IP address has long been less accurate. (let's talk later).
Moreover, the major mainstream platforms do not display specific IP addresses, but a wider range of provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and even countries and regions.
For us ordinary users, displaying an IP territory really won't have a big impact, and we can even recognize the villagers on the spot.
Then why can it cause so much controversy? Xiao Lei privately thinks that he has something to do with these groups.
The first is people who pretend to do business overseas. They are at home, but they know that netizens are curious about foreign life.
So he decided to package himself as an overseas Chinese blogger.
For example, Lulu, who collects rags in Japan, has shown that her account home page belongs to Henan since [IP territory] was launched.
The blogger named "people in New York" was even more embarrassed.
The left indicates that you are in the United States, but the real IP possession on the right exposes you.
The platform seems to be saying to these bloggers of [people in XX, just got off the plane]: "don't install it, brother, now it shows the IP territory."
As for some accounts that engage in local eating, drinking and fun, the scene seems even more embarrassing.
As you can see, the following accounts such as "Xi'an eating, drinking and having fun", "Guangzhou life of Guangzhou people" and "Chongqing eating and drinking life" are all in Hunan.
If you don't understand, ask whether Hunan knows more about eating, drinking and fun in the whole country, or whether the center of the universe is in Hunan?
In fact, Xiao Lei thinks that these numbers should be uniformly managed by a MCN organization from Hunan.
From another point of view, people in Hunan can be proficient in the characteristics of eating, drinking and playing in various regions, and sort out the output content. Their business ability is really not black.
But now netizens don't like being cheated. Looking at the local blogger they like is not local, it's estimated that it's not a taste in their heart.
Of course, if you really want to say who is hurt the most by the IP territory, it belongs to those who "are in caoying and have a heart in Han".
Once Xiaolei was also very puzzled about why the microblog atmosphere is so smelly. When he goes up every day, he either fights or spits.
Since the [IP territory] function was launched, Xiao Lei finally realized that all these unfriendly comments came from overseas.
By virtue of the concealment of the network, this group of people "shit" everywhere on major social platforms with rhythm. It's strange not to stink the network environment
The rat may be doing the important task of the Internet with his heart.
But now the IP territory is displayed. Whoever is anxious knows everything.
In a word, if we are just ordinary people, we can make waves on the Internet.
Then the display of IP possessions will not affect our surfing interest.
Don't panic if the IP address is leaked
After discussing the IP ownership, let's talk about the risks if we get the detailed IP address.
If you recall the time to more than ten years ago, you will find that at that time, many forums showed the IP address of Posts and commentators.
And different from today's territory, the IP displayed by the forum at that time was very detailed, and only the last paragraph hid the number.
For example, 223.5.198 xxx。
But just the first three paragraphs are enough for us to find out where the IP comes from.
Also because of this, at that time, some netizens who paid attention to privacy posted everywhere and asked about the way to hide the real IP address.
There are many netizens in the comment area to give advice, among which the most mentioned is the proxy IP law.
Well, I feel a little familiar. Today, Xiao Lei really brushed the news of "the explosion of IP agent deformity industry".
Sure enough, there are policies at the top and Countermeasures at the bottom.
But Xiao Lei still said that if you just go online, even if you know the specific IP address, it's not a big deal, and there's no need to buy the so-called [replace IP agent] software.
Because the current IP address has long been unable to accurately reach a single networked device.
In the early days when IPv4 addresses were still abundant, each networked device did have an exclusive IP address. At this time, IP address leakage will have a serious impact.
For example, after others get your IP address, they can find out what small movies you have downloaded, or carry out network attacks on you.
Later, with more and more people surfing the Internet, IPv4 addresses became more and more scarce, and 4294967296 addresses were about to be consumed.
However, IPv6 has not been fully popularized. In order to alleviate the shortage of IPv4, experts have made a NAT protocol.
The so-called NAT protocol is to convert the public IPv4 address distributed by the operator into the intranet IP.
In this way, all networked devices at home only need to consume an IPv4 address, which increases the carrying capacity of Internet devices in a disguised way.
Then simply carry the task of NAT conversion on your own shoulders, so that users in the whole cell can share an intranet IPv4 address. Later, operators felt that this was not environmentally friendly enough.
Harm, in terms of saving resources, it depends on the operator
Even if others know your public IP address, they can't accurately find where you are. The biggest advantage of this is better security.
Want to hit people "along the network cable"? Sorry, no way.
Of course, if we really feel that the IP territory has been made public, which is an infringement of our privacy, we can really consider taking a wave of prosecution.
A netizen did this a few days ago, and the data collection is very complete.
However, Xiao Lei thinks that it is hard to say that it is an invasion of privacy just to disclose an IP territory.
Don't forget that the scale of public IP in previous forums is much larger than now.
In general, it is necessary to publicly display the function of [IP ownership] online.
At least, it allows many people who take the rhythm of the Internet to expose their original shape, so that people who "just get off the plane in XX" are slapped in the face.