By using simple tools you can find the manufacturer of your router and potentially use a known security to gain access to your network.
You expose yourself to being targeted by focused network attacks, since they know the address belongs to you.
In ye olden days, it would have been possible to track your ip and what it was accessing online. Its harder to do today due to cryptography and vpn’s, but still a risk.
Are you maybe thinking of MAC addresses? That would be closer being the “identity” of a device and you can typically identify the manufacturer from it. You can’t see the MAC address of a remote router via the internet though unless you are on its local network.
An IP address is usually a temporary lease provided by your ISP, and residential connections usually get a new one every once in a while (like every 24 hours).
Your ip is the identity of your router.
By using simple tools you can find the manufacturer of your router and potentially use a known security to gain access to your network.
You expose yourself to being targeted by focused network attacks, since they know the address belongs to you.
In ye olden days, it would have been possible to track your ip and what it was accessing online. Its harder to do today due to cryptography and vpn’s, but still a risk.
Are you maybe thinking of MAC addresses? That would be closer being the “identity” of a device and you can typically identify the manufacturer from it. You can’t see the MAC address of a remote router via the internet though unless you are on its local network.
An IP address is usually a temporary lease provided by your ISP, and residential connections usually get a new one every once in a while (like every 24 hours).
What?! You need the MAC to identify a router and MACs don’t go over the internet.
I’ll let you go ahead and explain that one.
Maybe if you open a browser to it and external management is allowed, it might say linksys?