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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You can’t spoof your IP address because of the TCP handshake. You could proxy your traffic to appear from coming from a different IP address than from the computers making the requests. This would still be identified as suspicious because the proxy IP address would differ from an IP address a user had logged in from before.

    Even if the “hackers” knew every user’s IP address, they would not be able to establish a connection with it appearing from an IP address that didn’t really initiate the traffic.