DipMan threatening to hack

[robo7988143]

And I mean his ID is 7599 if you need it, I was very scared yesterday. I was so scared yesterday I couldn't think straight.

[Ad Bot]

[fireking]

he can't really do anything besides bring down your internet for a minute or two and i doubt he's capable of that

[The Young Avenger]

Dont worry, he is probably one of those butthurt 12 year olds that threaten to hack people and then type in something like "open hack.exe" in console or something

[Xalos]

Your IP address is public information.  It's so very much NOT private that the master server gives it out freely whenever you host a Blockland server, and you give it to every website or game server you visit (unless you use a VPN/proxy).  This is essentially the script kiddie level of doxing - it requires almost no effort to achieve, but since most people don't understand what an IP address is or what it's used for, they freak out if you tell them what their IP address is.

You can use someone's IP address to find out where they are, but this is wildly inaccurate in most cases.  Most geoip services I've looked at claim that I'm somewhere fifty miles away from where I actually am.  If you're even reasonably careful about posting personal information online, you shouldn't really be worried if someone says what country and state you live in.  Anyone who joins your server can easily access that information if they have the knowledge to do so.

[Bing2]

-snip-

I was on that server ;-;
I must've missed that 'event'

[Darth C3P0]

Oh yeah, like Xalos said, it doesn't matter if they have it, as long as they don't have your local ip address.

[Red Spy]

And I mean his ID is 7599 if you need it, I was very scared yesterday. I was so scared yesterday I couldn't think straight.

Why are you so loving scared? The worst he could do is knock you off the internet for a couple minutes

[TableSalt]

oh no :(

[shamester]

I have seen too many people like this, including myself.  I used to be like this all the time back in the day now i have fun exposing them. 

[NotBomberguy]

hes full of stuff don't worry about him

[Xalos]

Oh yeah, like Xalos said, it doesn't matter if they have it, as long as they don't have your local ip address.

I feel obligated to correct this - your LAN IP address is even less useful in most cases to an attacker than your public IP address.  With your public IP address, they can attack you.  With your LAN IP address, they'll wind up either attacking something on their own local area network, or sending a lot of traffic to nowhere.  The only time you should be worried about someone having your LAN IP address is if they're connected to your LAN, in which case they're physically quite close to you, which you should probably be more worried about than electronic attacks on your machine.