What can people tell from my IP address?

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Leo, how can I tell the actual owner or home location of an IP address?

Charles: contact the ISP that whois.arin.net tells you owns that IP address. Be sure to have a court order giving you permission, though, since they won't give that information without a reason.

Leo, how can I tell the actual owner or home location of an IP address?

You cannot.

Dear Leo, I’ve read several of your articles about IP addresses, including this one:
Finding someone else's IP can be as easy as looking at the full headers of email that they've sent you,. . . .

How do you tell by looking at the full header what the IP address is? Here are two examples from Hotmail (and I assume by “full header” you mean the full URL.) I know where these are from, both from the same computer, or should be as they are the same person. Most of the URL matches, but part in the middle does not:

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My second question is, if I am using Outlook (full, not Express) for my e-mail, I don’t see a full header anywhere. How do I find an IP address in this circumstance?

Thanks,
Elisa

You want this article: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_view_full_mail_headers_in_outlook.html

Using http://www.ipgp.net you can find in most cases the exact location of an IP.

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No, You cannot.

as I keep saying, you can get the location of the ISP, and that's as
close as you can get. You CANNOT further determine the actual location
of the IP address without the ISP's help.

Leo
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In any case you need protection for sure. Go to www.tiptunnel.com protect against any online intruders for email, chat and Voip etc.

i can tell you this....

Country : United States (US)
Region: CA California
City : Cupertino
Longitude: 37.3042
Latitude : -122.0946
Postal Code: 95014
DMA Code: 807
Area Code: 408

So basically youve just given out your home adress.......

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