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Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype. Microsoft Is In No Rush to Fix It
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Ohh no, someone on the Internet might have my IP address! The horror! What if they try to ping me?!
People used to use this attack in League of Legends a decade ago. If they're losing, they guess someone might have Skype open; and moreover, that their Skype is the same as their summoner name. Then they get an ip address and ddos the entire lobby, causing the game to crash (I think it happened in one of my games maybe once, but I didn't really play ranked other than team ranked).
Also, since all pro & semipro players had each other added, this was possible to do at any time during online tournaments (which was most tournaments - TSM invitational etc). So there were always rules that ddossing was disallowed. But it did happen.
Known ddossers were more hated in the community than known flamers, but a few people who did it "reformed" and went on to be pro players anyway.
What if they leave an anonymous tip that you're distributing CSAM?
With just an IP? Then the system is broken. Because an IP is often easy to get, and everything that directly connects to you needs your IP, unless you use a VPN I guess.
Every website knows your IP. Every internet application knows your IP. Everyone in a peer-to-to-peer network knows your IP. It's not a secret, it's just your internet address. It is designed to be known.
Yk I was on the others side of this til this comment, like I was gonna say there's a difference between corporations and malicious individual actors, but nowadays I'd trust some random individual 1000x before a company.
God I hope veilied becomes popular