[LINK] technical question: security alert

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com> wrote:

> >  i have a small tool in
> > my (windows) taskbar called MUM
>
> That's what I was asking about - thank you. Tools like this have been
> readily available for at least 10 years on the Mac, and I'm curious
> that there are people who are unaware of the difference between
> internal and external addresses.
>

But what do they do to get your IP address?  My money is on them simply
connecting to a website similar to the ones that have been mentioned and
displaying the results...

  Scott.