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IP Geolocation

The process of determining the physical location of an IP address.

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Jan 23, 2026
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When I check my IP-address using the TOR browser I would expect it to be the IP-address of the exit node. However it is a completely different IP-address. How can that be?

When a site reports an IP address different from the 's shown exit node, it can mean one of several things: the browser actually used a different network path or leaked a real address (via non‑Tor req...

Jan 6, 2026

IPs are often only useful if correlated quickly?

IP addresses are valuable investigative atoms but their utility decays with time: they produce immediate, actionable signals for blocking, enrichment, and short-term attribution, yet become far less r...