The actual test costs 9 yuan to purchase the "false IP territory" service, and the domestic and foreign addresses can be counterfeited

Since mid-April, Internet platforms such as Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin have launched the "IP Territory" function. However, the Red Star Capital Bureau found that behind the "IP territory" function, there were some hidden gray production transactions of false agents.

On May 6, Red Star Capital Bureau spent 9 yuan on the idle fish platform to buy a server, and the merchant said that it could change the user's IP territory, and platforms such as Douyin, Kuaishou, and Weibo could use it. Subsequently, the Red Star Capital Bureau found that the use of this server can indeed change the IP territory, and all provincial and municipal addresses in China can be used. Some merchants said that they can change to an overseas address, "Japan is 20 yuan / month, other countries and regions is 288 yuan / year." ”

Red Star Capital Bureau combed and found that since mid-April, major Internet platforms have launched the "IP Territory" function. This has also led to many Internet celebrity bloggers "rolling over", causing heated discussions.

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Idle fish merchants sell "fake IP territory" servers

The actual measurement costs 9 yuan to change

On May 6, red star capital bureau found on the idle fish platform that some merchants were selling servers with "fake IP territories", and said that using the server could change the user's IP territory, including Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo and other platforms.

Subsequently, Red Star Capital Bureau spent 9 yuan to buy the above-mentioned servers. According to the tutorial given by the merchant, Red Star Capital Bureau downloaded an APP called "Love Acceleration", and after registering and logging in, it was found that the "IP territory" of the mobile phone could be modified to the IP address of the target region, and the address of all provinces and cities in China could be used.

Before use, the reporter's Weibo and Douyin platform account "IP territory" are displayed as Beijing, after using the server, the reporter randomly selected "Guangdong Province" as the target IP address, and then open Weibo to comment, the IP territory immediately became "Guangdong". Similarly, comments in the Douyin APP also show up as "Fujian".

Red Star Capital Bureau commented on Weibo before and after changing the IP territory

Red Star Capital Bureau changed the IP territory before and after commenting on Douyin

The above-mentioned merchants told red star capital bureau that the principle of the "false IP territory" server is: "Modify the mobile phone IP to the target regional IP, and app such as Douyin and Weibo will think that you are using in the target area, and only need to comment on two sentences to update the IP territory." The merchant also added: "Everyone who has played the game before knows this feature." ”

According to the Tianyancha APP, the "Love Acceleration" APP, which provides false IP territorial services, was developed by Shanghai Youdun Network Technology Co., Ltd., and its profile shows that this is a static IP agent software, which uses AES technology to encrypt online data, protect network data transmission, and prevent personal information leakage.

Why does the "Love Acceleration" APP provide services for fake IP territories? Red Star Capital Bureau called Shanghai Youdun Network Technology, as of press time, it has not been connected.

There is more than one merchant selling the "fake IP territory" service, and Red Star Capital Bureau asked a number of merchants on the idle fish platform, and the other party said that it could be changed. There are also merchants who say that they can change to foreign IP, "Japan is 20 yuan / month, other countries are 288 yuan / year." ”

"Before searching for IP territories, you can search a lot, but these two days gradually decreased, and I just found that the search keywords can no longer be searched," the merchant said. Red Star Capital Bureau found that at present, the idle fish platform is cleaning up these gray production transactions, and the merchant said that idle fish has sent him a notice of violation, saying that the goods it released involve prohibited risks and need to be deleted immediately.

Major platforms have successively launched IP territorial functions

Help maintain order in cyberspace

Red Star Capital Bureau combed and found that since mid-April, major Internet platforms have launched the "IP Territory" function.

On April 15, today's headline announcement said that in order to maintain a real and orderly discussion atmosphere, reduce impersonation of hot event parties, malicious rumors, rubbing traffic and other bad behaviors, today's headlines intend to display the account IP territory in personal homepages and other locations, and the relevant functions will be tested on the web page from now on, and will be gradually launched in other scenarios according to the test situation.

Subsequently, Douyin, Kuaishou, and Baidu also issued similar announcements, called maintaining a real and orderly discussion atmosphere, reducing bad behaviors such as impersonating parties to hot events, malicious rumors, and rubbing traffic, and intending to display the IP territory of the account in personal homepages and other locations, and the relevant displays do not support manual opening or closing.

In addition, Xiaohongshu also released the "Announcement on Displaying the IP Territory of Accounts in Personal Homepages and Other Locations" on the evening of April 15. The announcement said that in order to prevent the behavior of impersonating local netizens of hot events, Xiaohongshu will gradually open up this function. The territorial information displayed is mainly based on the data of the network operator, and indicates that manual opening or closing is not supported.

At 11:00 on April 28, Weibo administrators issued an announcement on the upgrading of IP territorial functions, indicating that Weibo has been committed to maintaining a healthy and orderly discussion atmosphere and protecting the rights and interests of users to obtain true and effective information at the first time. In order to reduce the undesirable behaviors such as impersonating parties to hot events, malicious rumors, and rubbing traffic, and to ensure the authenticity and transparency of the disseminated content, the station launched the "IP territory" function of users online in March this year.

Weibo said that in order to further protect the rights and interests of users and improve the user experience, the site will upgrade its products and launch new functions on April 28 on the basis of the previous basis, including the full open comment display and evaluation of the IP territory small tail function and the launch of the "personal home page level page display IP territory" function.

On April 29, the WeChat Coral Safety Public Account issued an announcement: In order to maintain the order of network communication and further crack down on counterfeiting and handling, rumor-mongering and rumor-mongering, the WeChat public platform will display the IP territory of users when they publish content.

On the morning of April 30, the official account of Zhihu issued an announcement that it was fully online to display the user's IP territory. Zhihu said that in response to the answers to some of the previous questions in the station to display and comment on the IP territory, this time will further upgrade the function of displaying IP address territoriality. Zhihu said that the IP address territorial information display problem of the "comment reply" in the comment area has been improved, and the comment area will fully display the IP address territorial information.

Workers Daily commented that the IP territory from "not showing" to "displaying" is a major change. To a certain extent, this strengthens the correlation between the network ID and the real identity of netizens, raises the threshold of responsibility for network voice, and can prompt some netizens to be more cautious before typing the keyboard.

Many Internet celebrity bloggers "roll over"

Overseas blogger IP territories are actually in China

Previously, the launch of the IP territorial function displayed by major network platforms led to the "overturning" of many Internet celebrity bloggers, which also triggered a round of controversy. Many big Vs who are certified as "local info bloggers" and "overseas info bloggers" have a situation where the IP territory does not match the data address.

On Weibo, there are many overseas information bloggers whose IP addresses are displayed in a certain place in a certain province in China, which makes netizens call "overturning".

Taking the United States as an example, from @American obstetricians and gynecologists to @American Ivy Spice Girls and @American Rabbit Mama, their IP territories are in Shanghai, Hong Kong SAR and Jiangsu Province in the mainland. In the information filled in by the above three bloggers on Weibo, the addresses are basically "overseas" and "overseas in the United States".

Let's take a look at the bloggers with "Russia" in the Weibo ID, @Russia, @Russia Peter Jun, @Crazy Russia, the certifications of these three bloggers are "local bloggers" and "overseas information bloggers (Russia)". In the Weibo information they filled out, the addresses were "overseas" or "overseas Russia", but the IP territory showed that these three were in Guangdong Province, Liaoning Province and Beijing Municipality.

Red Star Capital, on the other hand, found that this situation is not unique to overseas bloggers. Some local information bloggers with domestic city names in their Weibo IDs are not in this city, but in Hunan Province.

Some netizens joked that "the disclosure of IP territory has become a pain in the hearts of local bloggers..." "It seems that the end of the universe is Hunan." ”

At that time, the Red Star Capital Bureau interviewed the relevant person in charge of Weibo, who said that this situation or the centralized commercial operation of information accounts is a very common situation.

The person in charge also introduced that the display of IP attribution actually reflects the authenticity of the online remarks of real accounts. The main consideration is to "reduce bad behaviors such as impersonating parties to hot spots, malicious rumors, and rubbing traffic; to ensure that the content disseminated is true and transparent when hot spots occur." The fundamental purpose of this move is to enhance the authenticity of the statements made by users on the Weibo platform. This series of actions is the performance of Weibo as a social media platform and as a public opinion field to actively fulfill the responsibility of the main responsibility of the enterprise. ”

Red Star News reporter Yu Yao Qiang Ya Milling

Edited by Yu Dongmei