Omg I didn't know that! So that raises another question! What's stopping Steemit owners of selling/releasing IP addresses to the CIA or big corps?!!
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Omg I didn't know that! So that raises another question! What's stopping Steemit owners of selling/releasing IP addresses to the CIA or big corps?!!
Anytime you use your computer to connect to another you expose your Internet address. This is analogous to writing a post card mail. Your return mailing address is on the card you send, and with the exception the return address must be there or you will not get a response from the postcard. Now, in the Internet world, your return address is your IP address, and the card you send is a request for say '/' to the address at steemit.com, and the response is the content of the webpage.
It is similar whether you use web, ftp, bitcoin, or bittorrent. In order to convert an IP into a home address would require your ISP. Bittorrent and bitcoin in particular do not go to some central server but rather to random nodes so its harder to go to thousands of node operators.
The mitigations are TOR or VPN. one VPN is hide.me.
Thanks for that explanation!