Welcome back, everyone. In today's post, we will understand the Importance of hiding IP addresses and Mac addresses. The interesting question does VPN hide mac address? The answer is big fat NO.
Why you need to hide IP to become anonymous online?
- Ip addresses are the logical address and unique identifier of your device on the Internet. An IP address is look something like this.
- There are some types of IP addresses like private IP and public IP. We are not going to cover that part in our post. on your computer. If you open the Command prompt.
- And type, if config. And here you will get your private IP address.
- Then click here to go to what's my IP .com where you can find your public IP address.
Every device which is connected to Internet has a unique IP address. Without an IP address, no device can go through the Internet. So now you can guess how IP address is important as I said, that IP address is a unique identifier for your device. So that means an IP address can leak your main information, like
- where you live.
- which ISP you are using.
- who are you?
- So that's why hiding IP addresses or spoofing IP addresses is very much important to become anonymous online.
Now Let's talk about the Mac address
What is mac address?
- Mac addresses are the physical address of your device to connect with the Internet in our mobile phone, PC, laptop, and IT devices. If something looks like this and this is called Mac addresses.
- We have a network interface card or system in every device and every Nic card has a unique number in itself. the network interface card is something that looks like this.
Using a Mac address, anyone can view.
- which company device you are using?
- who are you?
- So it is also important to hide your Mac address as well. So now you know that why hiding IP addresses and MAC addresses are important.
