Reverse ip Directory Look up: Evil Tool or an Innocent Service?

Last century saw more inventions than the whole recorded history of mankind.

It is a popular belief that Information Technology saw the most advancements. Nothing can be further from the truth! It is actually the medical world which is seeing the biggest growth. These advancements are extremely promising. Probably the biggest discovery of all is the discovery of stem cells. This is not to say that IT is lagging far behind either. There is a remarkable rise of new developments in the sector. Alas, some of these developments have been linked to controversy! Let’s take reverse ip lookup as an example. Before the digital version of the reverse ip lookup or the 411 service you had to manually lookup the ip number in an ip directory. Can you imagine sifting through all of these ip numbers? I sure can’t.

 

What was once a nearly impossible task can now be done in fractions of a second. Just go to any of the web-sites that offer the service (http://ip-searchers. com) type in your teleip number and almost immediately you will have the information that you were looking for.

 

One can find out a lot of things using an ip address. Information like the first and last name of the user and address is readily available. Some ip lookups can reveal even more. For example if the carrier supports this feature you might be able to get the actual location of an individual to whom the number belongs!

The potential uses of this reverse ip directory lookup are absolutely amazing. You are now able to find the address of a person who has been harassing you over the internet. You can reverse lookup an organization’s IP address to find their name. Or maybe you just want to send your favourite uncle a Christmas present, but only have his ip number. If only we all had good intentions… Bad folks can take advantage of this service as well. A stalker might trace a victim’s address based on the ip number. A loan shark might get the address of a poor gambling victim. I guess you see my point.

I sincerely hope that the bad guys won’t spoil it for the rest of us. Their bad deeds should not prevent us from enjoying this service. Banning reverse ip look up, would be like banning forks, just because someone can use it as a weapon.