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Well bugsy, technically the wrong question was asked. The "correct" question would be "Can one obtain an IP address of the people one chat with on yahoo messenger?" Which the answer is yes, but not directly. It has been mentioned many times in this thread as to how this can be done, so I won't go into that. Now, as for Polax's statement (still not sure why he/she said what they said), this is only true for the most part, however it's a huge waste of time. Why use a proxy when the most someone can get out of your IP address is a general location of where you are. Just under half of the people that try to trace my IP address can't even get any closer than 4 hours from the town I live in. For most, it's an hour and a half. You can't obtain any personal information from an IP address, and you can't gain access to a computer via an IP address unless that address specificially allows it. All these "hacking" attacks that have been all over the news are related to "worms and viruses" not hackers actually attacking anything, and 90% (according to the SANS organization) of hack attempts come from the inside.
I'm sure a lot of you have been asking this question because you worry about someone being able to hack you (you've probably had someone on yahoo tell you that they can hack you or get your IP) but it is all false (if you follow the advice of the rest of the thread. If not, then they can get your IP, and that's it).
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