 Happy Thanksgiving. It actually is Thanksgiving. I'm going to try to post this today too. It's just a reply to a comment I should have looked at the person's name. You'll see the comments if you looked at my video about getting the GPS coordinates of an IP address or at least the Area that they're in based on their ISP and the IP address and all that stuff anyway Video I released earlier this week The thing is someone commented that I shouldn't be sharing my public IP in my video And although I kind of disagree that your public IP your external IP is not really something that's private because any unless you're using some sort of service such as a VPN to You know route things around pretty much any service any website anything you're gonna connect to knows your your public IP It's it's not and anyone can access it by putting in you know ranges of IP addresses But at the same time yeah, you know less people know about you the better and especially as someone on YouTube With viewers like I have you know It's probably a good idea not to share my public IP because also I'm gonna have a bunch of people You know trying to port scan me which pretty sure if you did my ISP would block most of that Unless there are creative ways to get around that But in general not too concerned, you know, I do run servers out of my house But I feel like my servers are fairly secure and monitored I am alerted of certain events on those specific machines but Although I'm not too concerned about people up my public IP I also thought about that and didn't want you guys to have my public IP my external IP address so actually There was a little fakery in that video and since I'm brought up I'll bring in I've done this before in videos That was I faked it I faked it in that video Although what I did was exactly the same as you would do it in the output would look the same Because it was a curl command you would curl Which is like W get for if you're not familiar with curl you know just to do HTTP requests and basically you you give them your IP address and it returns a GPS coordinates with you Know your information like that and I think it was in a JSON format Well Again, I faked it before I recorded the video. I ran that command and you know without giving an IP address so it does your default IP address and What I did was I put that into a file and then I alias the curl command to cat out that file So that and then I modify that file and change the IP address and some of the other information in there I probably changed the GPS coordinates now also I I record that video three months ago So there's I would say in most cases my IP address has changed since then But I monitor how often my IP address changes and I don't think it has changed my IP address change is usually once a year And I'm 99% sure it hasn't changed in the last three months. I don't remember getting that alert and stuff like that, but Again, I ran the command before I recorded the video dumped it into a file modified my personal information I I'm pretty sure I changed the GPS coordinates as well I forget I probably pointed it to something specific if you look it up on on whatever mapping service you use I'll have to look at the video because I'm pretty sure I picked something that it pointed to But basically in the video I just alias curl to cat this file and then everything after curl doesn't matter So even though I was typing real commands and the output is what you would normally see at least formatting wise It was actually just catting out that file So all the information in that video as far as the output is fake. It wasn't my IP address It wasn't my coordinates my GPS coordinates. It's it was all fake And I did that on purpose and I didn't wasn't gonna say it Because I don't think I need to but since it was brought up in the comments I thought I'd point that out and I have done that before where I'll alias a command to cat out a file That is information that I modified just to prevent Information being shown to you. I think I've done it before when I'm like listing files on my hard drive I'll do that but then Put it into a Folder cut out the directories. I don't want and then I'll alias the command. It's just stuff like that You know stuff that might expose private information. I will modify it beforehand at least if I think of it I'm always concerned. I am always concerned about accidentally Displaying something private in one of my videos is one of the main reasons I don't do live videos very often if I do I probably do them on a separate machine where I booted up a live Distro freshly But yeah, good call in some ways. Like I said, it's not that important if you guys got my IP address It's not that big of a deal it's just It would make I am you know would make me part of a target But I wouldn't be too concerned about it because I'm pretty sure my systems are secure also Changing my IP address. I think it wouldn't be that hard for you guys to go online and just Google my name and find out Probably exactly where I live But even that when we're doing that curl command, it's just giving the area. I'm in so I Live in the swamp But yeah, so I thought I'd bring that up I do fake things in my videos sometimes just to hide information like that just to be careful But yeah, the commands will the output is exactly what it would be in real life scenario I just changed the private part of that so good call whatever your name was user. I apologize I should look that I just decided to do this video right now again Happy Thanksgiving if you're in the United States if you're in Canada I think I'm about a month too late and other parts of the world, you know be thankful all the time So I hope that you have a great day