Protect Your IP Address
If you make a request to a website or send/receive any data across the internet, you have given your router's IP address. This request can take any form, from a visiting a link, viewing an image hosted there, or being redirected through a short link. You can also be tricked into opening a file that sends a request out to the internet, running a program which profiles your computer and sends out a request, or even running a terrible DDOS tool that makes no attempt to hide that it is running on your own network. An attacker can use these requests to identify someone through a 3rd party service.
Tasks:
- Visit http://www.whatsmyip.org/more-info-about-you/
- How much information did they know about you?
- Use this site to shorten a URL and send it to a friend to get their
IP https://iplogger.org/shortener/?
- Tell them in advance you are doing this! Even better, invite them to join Roppers!
If you want to see more options of what is possible, you should check out https://canarytokens.org/generate and see what the options are!