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How to Find IP Address on Any Device

Posted by Cyber Shaft Friday, March 9, 2018 0 comments


What is an IP Address?
Just like a street address or telephone number, communication on devices also comes with addresses too. IP Address is referred to in full as Internet Protocol Address. An Internet Protocol involves combining of rules that coordinate the affairs of Internet activities. Hence, IP Address oversees internet communication with the sole aim of identifying between devices and destinations. It is a means of identification, usually numerical, designated to each device for the purpose of communicating with other devices in the Internet Protocol Network. There cannot be online communication inexistence without an Internet Protocol address as it is saddled with the responsibility of finding and exchanging information between devices. For instance, just as one cannot send a letter without giving it an address where the receiver could be located so also, information on the web cannot be sent without the IP address. Principally, the IP address has two basic functions which are identification and for Locating. Through the identification system or function of the IP address, computers get to interact with one another and by doing so, necessary information are shared and devices are also located. A standard IP address has four (4) numbers which is always separated by a period or decimal (point).

What is the location of my IP Address? 
As previously identified, locating serves as one of the most principal functions of an IP address. Technically, locating in internet protocol is refers to as ‘geolocation’. It involves identifying the geographical location of an Internet-connected terminal such as mobile phones or computers. In simple terms, geolocation is the generation of coordinates to determine a location when a device is connected to the web.
The location is the public IP Address of a computer or device. The location of a device’s IP Address is the place where the device was at the moment of connecting to the Internet. However, IP Address usually do not represent specific locations of the computer network whatsoever. Although theoretically, internet protocol address is limited to only determining the physical location of an IP and not the actual location. In clear terms, an IP address cannot be directly associated or linked to a home address. Also, all that one could get in locating is an estimation.
To find out the location of an IP address, you can use IP Lookup tools to Find your IP Address or one could just Google search ‘My IP Address’ results would come out. Some of the details included in the search output are one’s current IP connection, the proxy IP, country, state, network city, ISP, Time zone, Operating system, latitude, longitude, local time and many more.

How do I find my servers’ IP Address?
A server is basically an automated software upon which specific contents are produced upon the request of a user. It is an unseen system where information is gotten from usually provided by an internet service provider. In comparison with the computer systems and telephones, all have its IP Addresses; a server also possesses an IP address. More clearly, every server in the network has a distinct IP Address depicted by the dot-decimal form. To locate one’s server’s IP address, below are steps to consider
On Windows
•    Click the start iconon the computer screen
•    Search CMD or Command Prompt and press the enter button
•    Use the command nslookupfollowed by the domain I question. E.G. nslookupwww.google.com and press the enter button
•    Follow the command’s output by reading through till you find the Server’s name. The next line that follows with the word address will include the servers’ IP Address

OR
•    Select the Command Prompt
•    At the prompt, type ping or pathping or tracert followed by the servers’ host name in question
Press enter and follow the output to locate your servers’ IP Address

On MAC
•    Go to the terminal
•    Run the command ipconfiggetpacket en0
•    (If you are on airport, replace en0 with en1)
•    The command would produce an output. Follow through to find the  server identifier
NOTE: ONE’S COMPUTER HAS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET TO RUN THROUGH THE ABOVE INSTRUCTION ELSE, THERE WOULD BE AN ERROR MESSAGE.

How do I find my IP Address on my Phone? 
To find one’s IP address on one’s phone, first make sure that one’s mobile phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network else, one would not see any four dot-decimal numbers.
On Android
•    Select the setting icon
•    Click on Wi-Fi icon
•    Select the menu button and select advanced
•    Scroll down to find the icon with the title IP Address. Beneath it is the phone’s private IP Address

On IPhone

•    Select the setting icon
•    Tap Wi-Fi which would display a list of connections available
•    Beside the network you are connected to is an information icon, select it and the details of the connected network would come into display.
•    Find the IP Address entry to find your IP Address


How Do I find my Wi-Fi routers IP ADDRESS?
The network routers IP Address in a business network connection is known as the default gateway as it serves as the means by which other devices connect. This routers default gateway can be easily located on a computer by simply using the command prompt. It is essential to connect one’s device to a wireless network in order to get the routers IP Address else, there would be an empty space left for the celestial to fill which cannot be trusted. Below are the instructions
ON WINDOWS
•    Click on the start icon
•    Type CMD on the search area to launch the command prompt
•    A prompt would appear, type ipconfig followed by hitting the enter button.
•    A list of all network adapter connected to the device would appear
•  Find the default gateway and jot down the number sequence next to it because that is your routers IP Address

ON MAC OSX
•    Click the apple icon on the computer screen
•    Select the system preferences icon
•    Select the network icon to open the menu
•    Select your network adapter in which you are connected to (It is usually the one with a green indicator)
•    Trace the number following the router entry as that is our routers IP Address or default gateway.



Conclusion
By the end of this, the location of one’s IP address should have been located including servers IP address, telephones IP address and one’s routers IP Address simply by following every step which has been identified above. The material is practical and as such I hope one practises what one has learnt.
Author: Osama Khan

Osama is a guest blogger at Cyber Shaft. He is a tech reporter and internet privacy and security enthusiast, who regularly shares his knowledge and ideas through this writings in an effort to make the internet a safe and secure place for all.

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What Happens To Privacy When The Internet Is In Everything?

Posted by Unknown Sunday, January 25, 2015 0 comments

This week Google’s Eric Schmidt was on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he suggested that the future Internet will be, in one sense, invisible — because it will be embedded into everything we interact with.
“The Internet will disappear,” he predicted (via The Hollywood Reporter). “There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time.
“Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.”
This is not an especially outlandish forecast, given the trajectory of connected devices. AnalystGartner calculated there were some 3.8 billion such ‘smart objects’ in use last year, and forecast 4.9 billion this — rising to 25 billion in circulation by 2020. (The global human population was estimated at around seven billion, at the last count.) In other words the sensornet is here, it’s just not densely (or evenly) distributed yet.
Google already owns Nest, a maker of connected devices for the home, such as a smoke alarm and learning thermostat. Google-Nest also owns Dropcam, a Wi-Fi security camera maker. Mountain View is clearly making a bid to be the nexus of the ‘connected home’ — which, along with the ‘connected car’ (of course Google is also building driverless, Internet-tethered cars), is the early locus for the sensornet. See also: wearables (‘connected people’), and the fact smartphones are gaining additional embedded sensors, turning our pervasive pocket computers into increasingly sensory mobile data nodes.
One of Davos’ more outlandish (perhaps) predictions for our increasingly connected future came from a group of Harvard professors who apparently sketched a scenario where mosquito sized-robots buzz around stealing samples of our DNA, as reported by Mail Online. “Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible,” computer science professor Margo Seltzer is quoted as saying. “How we conventionally think of privacy is dead.”
What Seltzer was actually arguing is that it needs no sneaky, DNA-sealing robo-mosquitos for connected technologies to violate our privacy. The point is, she later told TechCrunch, we are already at a privacy-eroding tipping point — even with current gen digital technologies. Let alone anything so futuristic as robotic mosquitos.
“The high order message is that we don’t need pervasive sensor net technologies for this to be true. We merely have to use technologies that exist today: credit cards, debit card, the web, roads, highway transceivers, email, social networks, etc. We leave an enormous digital trail,” she added.
Seltzer was also not in fact arguing for giving up on privacy — even if the Mail’s article reads that way. But rather for the importance of regulating data and data usage, rather than trying to outlaw particular technologies.
“Technology is neither good nor bad, it is a tool,” she said. “However, hammers are tools too. They are wonderful for pounding in nails. That doesn’t mean that someone can’t pick up a hammer and use it to commit murder. We have laws that say you shouldn’t murder; we don’t specialize the laws to call out hammers. Similarly, the laws surrounding privacy need to be laws about data and usage, not about the technology.”

With your permission

What especially stands out to me from Schmidt’s comments at Davos is his afterthought caveat — that this invisible, reactive, all-pervasive future sensornet will be pulling its invisible strings with your permission.
Perhaps he was paying lip-service to the warning of the FTC’s Chairwoman, Edith Ramirez, at CES earlier this month that building connected objects — the long discussed ‘Internet of Things’ — demands a new responsibility from businesses and startups to bake security and privacy protections into their products right from the get go.
“[The Internet of Things] has the potential to provide enormous benefits for consumers, but it also has significant privacy and security implications,” she warned. “Connected devices that provide increased convenience and improve health services are also collecting, transmitting, storing, and often sharing vast amounts of consumer data, some of it highly personal, thereby creating a number of privacy risks.”
Ramirez said that without businesses adopting security by design; engaging in data minimization rather than logging everything they can; and being transparent about the data they are collecting — and who else they want to share it with — by providing notifications and opt outs to users; then the risks to users’ privacy and security are enormous.
The problem with those well-meaning words from a consumer watchdog organization is that we are already struggling to achieve such rigorous privacy standards on the currentInternet — let alone on a distributed sensornet where there’s no single, controllable entry point into our lives. The Internet and the mobile Internet can still be switched off, in extremis, by the user turning off their router and/or powering their phone down (and putting it in the fridge if you’re really paranoid, post-Snowden).
But once a distributed sensornet has achieved a certain penetration tipping point, into the objects with which we humans are surrounded, well then the sheer number of devices involved is going to take away our ability to trivially pull the plug. Unless some kind of regulatory layer is also erected to provide a framework for usage that works in the interests of privacy and consumer control.
Without such consumer-oriented controls embedded into this embedded Internet, the user effectively loses the ability to take themselves offline, given that the most basic level of computing control — the on/off switch — is being subducted beneath the grand, over-arching utility of an all-seeing, always on sensornet. (Battery life constraints, in this context, might be viewed as a privacy safeguard, although low power connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth Low Energy, work to circumvent that limit.)
In parallel, a well-distributed Internet of Things likely demands greater levels of device automation and autonomy, given the inexorable gains in complexity generated by a dense network of networked objects. And because of the sheer number of connected devices. And more automation again risks reducing user control.
Connected objects will be gathering environmental intelligence, talking to each other and talking to the cloud. Such a complex, interwoven web of real-time communications might well generate unique utility — as Schmidt evidently believes. But it also pulls in increased privacy concerns, given how many more data points are being connected and how all those puzzle pieces might slot together to form an ever more comprehensive, real-time representation of the actions and intentions of the people moving through this web.
Earlier generation digital technologies like email were not engineered with far-sighted privacy protections in mind. Which is why they have been open to abuse — to being co-opted as part of a military industrial surveillance complex, as the Snowden revelations have shown, offering a honeypot of metadata for government intelligence agencies to suck up. Imagine what kind of surveillance opportunities are opened up by an ‘invisible’ Internet — which is both everywhere but also perceptually nowhere, encouraging users to submit to its data-mining embrace without objection. After all how can you resist what you can’t really see or properly control?
That is exactly the Internet that Schmidt wants to build, from his position atop Google’s ad sales empire. The more intelligence on web users Google can harvest, the more data it can package up and sell to companies who want to sell you stuff. Which, for all Google’s primary-colored, doodle-festooned branding, is the steely core of its business. Mountain View has long talked about wanting search to become predictive. Why? Because marketing becomes a perfect money-pipe if corporates can channel and influence your real-time intentions. That’s the Google end game.
Learning about human intention from the stuff people type into search engines is laughably crude compared to how much can be inferred from a sensornet that joins up myriad, real-time data-dots and applies machine learning data-mining algorithms dynamically. More dots are already being joined by Google, across multiple web products and its mobile platform Android — which brings it a rich location layer. Doing even more and deeper data mining is a natural evolution of its business model. (Related: Google acquired AI firm Deep Mind last year — a maker of “general-purpose learning algorithms”.)
The core reality of the Internet of Things is that a distributed network of connected objects could be deliberately engineered to catch us in its web — triangulating our comings and goings as we brush past its myriad nodes. The more connected objects surround us, the more data points wink into existence to be leveraged by the Googles of the digital world to improve the accuracy and texture of their understanding of our intentions, whether we like it or not.
So while the future Internet may appear to fade into the background, as Schmidt suggests, that might just signify a correspondingly vast depth of activity going on in the background. All the processing power required to knit together so many connections and weave a concealed map of who we are and what we do.
The risk here, clearly, is that our privacy is unpicked entirely. That an embedded ‘everywhere Internet’ becomes a highly efficient, hugely invasive machine analyzing us at every turn in order to package up every aspect of our existence as a marketing opportunity. That’s one possible future for the sensornet.
But it seems to me that that defeatist argument is also part of the spinning which vested interests like Google, whose business models stand to benefit massively, engage in when they discuss the digital future that they are trying to shape. Technology is a tool. Diverse applications are possible. And just because technology makes something possibledoes not also mean it is inevitable.
As Seltzer says, we need to be thinking about how we want the data to flow or not flow, rather than throwing our hands up in horror or defeat. What is also clearly necessary — indeed, I would argue, is imperative — is joined up thinking from regulators to comprehend the scope of the privacy risks posed by increasingly dense networks of networked objects, and how the accumulation of data-points can collectively erode consumer privacy. A clear-sighted strategy for ensuring end users can comprehend and control the processing of their personal data is paramount.
Without that, the risk for startup businesses playing in this space is that the rise of more and more connected devices will be mirrored by a parallel rise in human mistrust of increasingly invasive products and services.
In the hyper personal realm of the Internet of Things, user trust is paramount. So building a framework to regulate the data flows of connected devices now, while the sensornet is still in its infancy, is imperative for everyone involved.
In the offline world we have cars and roads. We also have speed limits — for a reason. The key imperative for regulators now, as we are propelled towards a more densely-packed universe of connected devices, is coming up with the sensornet’s speed limits. And fast.

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