Re: A86: Re: AOL Users or non.

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: Re: AOL Users or non.
From: jdaomteys@juno.com
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:37:38 -0500
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I personally don't see what the big deal about IP addresses is.  What
could they (the hackers) do? If your computer isn't setup as a
web/ftp/telnet/etc server, they would have a VERY hard time doing
anything to you (it's probably impossible).

--James

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:39:49 EST TGaArdvark@aol.com writes:
>
>> Guess what? They can get your IP just from you going to a web page!
>> Because of that, AOL cycles IP address every couple of minutes, so
>> hackers can't get it.
>
>Um, no. AOL doesn't care who has your IP address (and neither
>should you since it doesn't matter).  AOL assigns people IP
>addresses when they log on (as to most dialup ISP's).  Because
>of this, your IP address probably won't be the same the next
>time you log on.  As for changing your IP address while you
>are connected, this is physically impossible since this would
>cause everything you are currently doing (web browsing,
>downloads, IRC, ICQ, etc.) to disconnect and have to be
>restarted.
>
>

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