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<blockquote data-quote="blackice" data-source="post: 984136" data-attributes="member: 79035"><p>Because they can hammer you with traffic to cause denial of service. Or constantly hit you with known exploits until they find one that your equipment is vulnerable to. If you keep your networking equipment and operating system up to date the second is a low risk, but not impossible. And lastly you can be geolocated by your IP address, to some extent. It doesn’t need to be secret, but nobody you aren’t already connecting to really needs your IP address either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blackice, post: 984136, member: 79035"] Because they can hammer you with traffic to cause denial of service. Or constantly hit you with known exploits until they find one that your equipment is vulnerable to. If you keep your networking equipment and operating system up to date the second is a low risk, but not impossible. And lastly you can be geolocated by your IP address, to some extent. It doesn’t need to be secret, but nobody you aren’t already connecting to really needs your IP address either. [/QUOTE]
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