If an IP can not be stolen, then what is it people do with your email address to get info on you?

What does giving an email address to the wrong person do at worst scenerio and What do I do to fix it?

If an IP can not be stolen, then what is it people do with your email address to get info on you?
At worst? Probably nothing more then they send you email you don't want.





They might be able to find out more details about who you are based on finding other references to your email address on the Internet (e.g. via a search engine)
Reply:Ip addresses can be stolen. It's called spoofing.





Here is how it works:


A packet (data sent over the Internet) has a source and destination ip. You can change both values. Here is an illustration: Report Abuse

Reply:You (10.0.0.2) send a message to server (10.0.0.3) with a source ip of (10.0.0.3). The server will then send the data that was requested, ie web page, to 10.0.0.3 not you. Report Abuse

Reply:If 10.0.0.3 does exist then the computer will have no idea what is going on and send a reset packet saying it didn't ask for it and stop sending it packets. Now, even though 10.0.0.3 said it didn't ask for it, the server has 10.0.0.3 in it's logs not 10.0.0.2. Report Abuse

Reply:This means that you can get any data but you can preform an attack that frames someone. If you could somehow "hack" 10.0.0.3, then you could relay the data back to you and it would be fairly untraceable and if you got caught all records would lead to 10.0.0.3. Report Abuse

Reply:Their isn't much you can do with emails. You can see the destination but most of the time, for common users, the ip address is the server that you use, ie yahoo.com, aol.com, etc.





Email me if you have any questions. Report Abuse

Reply:Sorry about the break up, but I was limited to 300 characters. Report Abuse

Reply:some of them send u spams or advertisements. that's all