Change the IP deformity industry fire, actual measurement: minutes to thousands of miles away, as long as 5 yuan a day

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Recently, Weibo, Zhihu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Today's Toutiao, Baijia, Xiaohongshu and other network platforms have announced "open account IP territory", and users cannot actively close it.

With the launch of the "IP territory" function, a large number of Internet celebrities have overturned. For example, some overseas purchasing accounts are actually IP attributed in China; some local Internet celebrity accounts, ip attribution is thousands of miles away.

At the same time, there is also a business that is on fire – paid IP agents. That is, modifying the IP territory.

Henan takes you around the world hunan to take you to eat, drink and have fun, a large number of Internet celebrities big V renamed and changed the profile

After the IP territorial function was launched, cattle ghosts and snake gods appeared one after another. "XX in Tokyo" IP territory is displayed as Shanghai; "XX in the UK" IP territory is Guangdong; "XXX in the UK" IP territory is Tianjin.

Subsequently, related topics rushed to the hot search.

Among the many bloggers who claim to be in foreign countries, due to the high frequency of IP territories showing Henan, netizens jokingly called "overseas information in Henan".

There are also many accounts for eating, drinking and playing all over the country, such as "Xi'an Eat, Drink and Play", "Guangzhou Life of Guangzhou People", "Chongqing Eat and Drink Life", "Shanghai Eat and Drink Sea Shopping Life", etc., and the IP territory is displayed as Hunan.

Later, some netizens found that some network big V began to quietly change the network name and profile.

For example, there is a blogger with 260,000 followers on a social platform called "xxx in Japan". Its original introduction was "settled in Japan for many years, an old aunt after 90, recording some of what she has seen and heard, a person with a straight personality, who does not like to grind and chirp, twist and turn".

After the IP attribution function was launched, netizens found that their IP territory was Liaoning. She changed her screen name to "xxx full of vitality" and deleted the phrase "settled in Japan for many years" from the introduction.

Test: Easily modify IP territory for only 5 bucks a day

With the overturning of many Internet celebrities, the business of modifying IP has sprung up.

It is reported that the use of technical means to "disguise" the IP home, in the field of technology has a proper noun called "IP proxy".

According to media reports, paid IP agents have formed a black and gray industrial chain. At present, on some e-commerce platforms, there has been a paid IP agent business, the purpose of which is obvious, directly indicating that the IP ownership of Weibo and Douyin can be changed.

Sanyan Finance searched for the "IP agent" keyword on an e-commerce platform and found that it had been blocked. Searching for "static IP", "IP territorial change", and "modifying IP" can still search for many related services.

After consulting with several merchants, Sanyan Finance found a store that could modify the IP territory.

Under the guidance of the store's customer service, Sanyan Finance conducted a modification test.

According to the instructions of its operation steps, the author quickly completed the setup.

Before using this feature, the author posted a comment on Douyin, and the IP territory is Beijing. After turning on the feature, I posted another comment. Only a minute later, the IP territory became Guangdong.

In this store, the test to modify the IP territory is free and valid for one hour.

If you want to continue to use, the renewal rate of the package is: 5 yuan / day, 30 yuan / week, 90 yuan / month, 250 yuan / quarter, 800 yuan / year.

The store's customer service also said that the store only has domestic IP, no overseas IP, and does not support access to overseas software.

Sanyan Finance tested an app, which was described as "network acceleration, static IP proxy".

Open the app, complete the registration, enter and select a territory of IP you want to display, and then the connection will be completed automatically, which is extremely simple.

With the help of this app, the author completed the teleportation of IP territories from Beijing to Liaoning.

The package fee of this app is 30 yuan / month, 78 yuan / season, 298 yuan / year, if you open automatic renewal, there will be some benefits.

In fact, the principle of modifying the territory of IP is also very simple.

The user's device normally accesses a website, the website's server will detect the user's local IP, and through the IP proxy for IP replacement, the user's device is first connected to the proxy server, and then by the proxy server to help the user access the website.

Because of the transit through the proxy, the visited website server detects the IP address of the proxy, rather than the IP address of the user itself.

Proxy IP servers are sung to be distorted by Safe Beijing voice: detention centers do not allow access to the Internet

The function of displaying the territory of the IP is first launched by Weibo.

The reason for this stems from the fact that after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, a large number of netizens from unknown sources pretended to be in The Ukrainian geographical location to publish a large amount of rumor information on the Internet, and then at the request of the relevant authorities, Weibo opened the IP territorial display function.

Subsequently, many network platforms announced the launch of the IP territorial display function, for similar reasons.

WeChat said that in order to further crack down on counterfeiting and handling, rumor-mongering and other behaviors. Today's headlines said that in order to maintain a real and orderly discussion atmosphere, reduce the impersonation of hot event parties, malicious rumors, rubbing traffic and other bad behaviors. Xiaohongshu said that in order to maintain a real and interactive community atmosphere, it is necessary to prevent and control the behavior of local netizens posing as hot events to spread rumors.

In my personal opinion, this feature is still supported.

First of all, this function is displayed at the provincial level in China and at the national level in foreign countries, and it does not specifically reach the point of a street or house number. Personally, this is not exaggerated to the point of invasion of privacy.

Secondly, if you don't want to make trouble and speak normally on the Internet, what is so terrible about IP territories from domestic to provincial, foreign to national/regional levels?

It is clear that the IP territory display feature touches the interests of certain groups.

Nowadays, a large number of IP proxy services have emerged, and its purpose is even more obvious.

The Internet is not a lawless place, not to say that you can do whatever you want online by "covering your face" without scruples.

This afternoon, the official microblog of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, "Ping An Beijing", also spoke out about the proxy IP services that have sprung up on the Internet.

Ping An Beijing said that the proxy IP server was actually a good thing, but the good scripture was always sung by people. Many people in the IP agency industry are frantically tempting on the edge of breaking the law and committing crimes.

According to Ping An Beijing, the main purpose of proxy IP is not to simply change the IP address, but an important security function that acts as a firewall. In particular, high-quality proxy IP has great benefits for network security, resisting computer viruses, preventing hacker attacks, setting different access rights, and so on. However, many lawbreakers use agent dynamic IP to change the IP address logged in different parts of the territory, and use various false server addresses to spread various rumors, commit fraud, involve pornography and gambling, and other illegal and criminal acts to evade the police crackdown.

Ping An Beijing said that last year, the Ministry of Public Security announced at the "Clean Net 2021" work results conference that it was specifically aimed at the key basic resources for the breeding of illegal and harmful information on the Internet, such as network television and "dynamic IP agents", and worked with relevant departments to investigate and punish 146 illegal network television platforms in accordance with the law, shut down more than 13,000 illegal broadband lines and more than 5,000 broadband Internet accounts.

Finally, Ping An Beijing also reminded some people that detention centers actually do not allow internet access...