• Linearity@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    Aren’t IPs prone to change though?
    If it does what’s stopping someone from somehow getting that IP and hosting a fraud site?

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      The same thing that stops people from getting access to your domain registration and changing the IP. You have a contract with your provider (ISP or DNS) which says that you own that IP/Hostname.

      Your home IP address changes, but most business or commercial accounts are given a static IP address (or blocks of IP addresses) which never changes.

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          6 hours ago

          Yeah, I used it until they rolled it into the business accounts (which I upgraded to in order to dodge data caps and have a symmetrical connection, because bittorrent).

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      2 days ago

      I think in this case it’d be the user not putting in any sensitive data or downloading executables to run from an internet radio.