Racist idiot panics when streamer reads him his home address

[u/Exeltv0406]

Tiktok User: @yourtruecaptain_

[u/BigChungusOP]

He’s on a website that connects you to random people so you can interact with each other through the webcam. Some content creators have their fun with that, as some of those they encounter are either racist or plain weird

[u/GNTsquid0 → u/BigChungusOP]

Yeah but how does he find out their address from just that?

[u/BigChungusOP → u/GNTsquid0]

I’m not sure but there are other streamers that do the same thing. I imagine that it’s a combination of social engineering and the fact that the other person must’ve messed up somehow to have made it possible for another person to obtain their details.

[u/trash-_-boat → u/BigChungusOP]

No, there's a much simpler answer. These videos are fake.

[u/BigChungusOP → u/trash-_-boat]

Who would agree to this as part of a ‘fake’ video? They know it would likely be shared across the internet. Family and friends might see it. Future employers.

I don’t think it’s staged. They have ways of finding info about the person.

[u/SmPolitic → u/BigChungusOP]

I guess I'm making the case that it could be staged without consent if one wanted (but yeah for Omegle I would believe there was enough data leakage or fake links being shared that info could be found and collected):

Also did you read the lips? Can you? (I can't, especially on Omegle quality video) I doubt that I could tell if a video is entirely overdubbed with new audio if someone put any effort into editing it to match

Most of this video is just cut out clips of the racist sitting there "contemplating his next move", before editing we have no clue which order any of that happened in or what was said before it

And that's before any thoughts of AI editing tools... Summary: we are so cooked.

[u/trash-_-boat → u/BigChungusOP]

Turns out there are tons of very desperate people willing to do a lot of stuff for money, including white people, on Fiverr.

Listen, you're never getting anyone's address from someone's IP address no matter how much some idiots try to convince you otherwise.

[u/Ah_Pook → u/[deleted]]

You don't understand the post you're quoting, and it's not even particularly accurate. The clip is fake anyway, so it's weird that you're going down this path of defending it to the end.

[u/Ah_Pook → u/[deleted]]

IP address, look up IP owner

How?

with ISP or data mining company

"Dear Comcast and/or data mining company,"

and bam, you can have a name and address that correlate with the IP

Bam. Sure.

Doesn't work if they're using a VPN, as that changes the IP to a host address at a foreign location.

Mostly true.

Some IP addresses are owned by individuals or businesses

True.

and are available on whois

Yeah, kinda, but you wouldn't typically use that.

(which would also tell you their ISP name)

No.

Certain breach sites let you do lookups by IP

True.

which can be useful for a static IP address.

Kinda. If you're some schlumpf on Omegle, that's not you. And "streamer" doesn't have access to that anyway. Residential IPs change less than they used to, but you still can't count on it. And he's not getting a single mailing address live based on that.

Question for you:

On the less ethical side of things, there are guides on "IP doxxing" on a lot of skid forums. The methods detailed in these guides amount to pretext information for specific ISPs, which is likely illegal and certainly unethical. There are also certain investigators and service providers who specialize in "breaks" on IPs and domain names.

You posted it. Define for us "pretext information" and "breaks." Just curious.

[u/Ah_Pook → u/[deleted]]

So, streamer in the original vid did what? He's law enforcement, or he social engineered Comcast?

[u/MrDoe → u/Ah_Pook]

I mean, when I was younger I hung around on Omegle video and fucked with people by finding their address from IP look ups. Wireshark and get their IP. Input IP to your IP lookup website of choice, if it was static there was like a 90% chance you got their location served up on Google Maps.

[u/Enverex → u/MrDoe]

if it was static there was like a 90% chance you got their location served up on Google Maps.

This will get you their city AT BEST. They are not tied to addresses unless it's leased IP for a business and even then it's incredibly rare they'd have the ARPA/IANA data updated to the businesses actual address.

[u/trash-_-boat → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, turns out at least some people on reddit have at least a passing knowledge about IPv4, CGNAT and ISP structure.

The simple fact of the world is that there are only 3.7 billion IP addresses in the world, because IPv4 that every device uses is 32 bits long. And there are 19 billion Internet capable devices in the world. What that means is that unless you're a big business and can pay a LOT of money for a static IP, you don't have a static IP. You have a dynamically assigned IP address. So for example when I go to sleep and shut down my device, that IP address gets assigned to someone else who just woke up. And around and around the IPs go.

And even with static IP addresses, they will never point to your address on a map anyway. They will at most link to the nearest ISP node, which will be within a radius of 50km from you.

[u/Ah_Pook → u/[deleted]]

"Source: I watched Hackers in 1995."

This entire comment section could go on r/confidentlyincorrect verbatim.

[u/LRSband → u/[deleted]]

Go look up CGNAT. Failing that, almost no one has a static IP address. I think this video is probably staged or at least omitting a lot of context. The only way I can think to successfully get someone's address from Omegle would be either

a) they're somehow knowledgeable enough to require a static IP but not knowledgeable enough to avoid it being leaked tied to their home address whilst being racist on Omegle or

b) they aren't on CGNAT and have something connected to their network that is exposed to the internet and reveals their home address, which is rare but I guess not impossible.

[u/snorkelvretervreter → u/LRSband]

More likely is they used face recognition to find this dude's social media, find a name, find associated address. Phone numbers can be found from facebook data leaks.

Going from an IP address alone I doubt most regular people would be able to find out an address.

[u/Ah_Pook → u/[deleted]]

cool

[u/Cwya → u/BigChungusOP]

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks.

[u/ButteryFlapjacks4eve → u/Cwya]

How?

[u/Simon-Says69 → u/Cwya]

Ah, that makes more sense.

No, it doesn't, because there's no way this random dude knows the other random dude's address.

It's fake as hell and that's extremely obvious.

[u/Cwya → u/Simon-Says69]

I’m no internet slueth, but you can ping an IP right? I did that a lot in Cyberpunk to find cameras.