Online Privacy – Hiding and Protecting your IP Address

Today’s advanced technology has caused everybody to depend and rely so much on the Internet. Two decades ago, you wake up early and have breakfast with the family and often reads the newspaper while having coffee. Students rush to school to finish their research and read books in the library. While in your workplace, you will be very busy on the phone, making transactions and writing reports on a paper. But, the computer age has changed everybody’s daily lifestyle. I know that the technology today has just made things work easier and convenient.

But, as individuals, who just knows how to use machines and devices like your laptops, personal computers and smartphones for online activities will never know that someone in this world had been watching you online. It is true that advanced technology had been a good creation, but it comes with flaws, which is taking your privacy and security away by simply tracking your machine or device’s IP. It would be great to visit the Nickull Blog on IP addresses to learn more about such issues and concerns.

What is an IP Address?

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Do you know that every device or machine that is connected or in a network comes with unique identifiers, which are used in sending data online? It means that in order for machines to enable transmission and communication online, an identifier or address is needed. This is identifier is what we call, the IP address or the Internet Protocol address. Actually, we have two versions of this – the IPv4 and the IPv6. Wherein, the IPv4 makes use of 32 binary bits in creating the IP, while the IPv6 makes use of 128 binary bits.

Configuring the IP address could either be a static or dynamic. When we say static, this means that you configure … Continue reading >>>