How I will know the exact location of the person I am chatting using skype? Is there a way to find out? thanks for your inputs...
I think I will know his real location thru IP Address, but how to know that if we are chatting thru Skype?
Not really possible I'm afraid, you might get some details from the 'technical call info' but I am not sure that you are guaranteed that any IP Address shown is not a proxy of some kind. Not used it for a while but 'Call Technical Info' used to be available during a call from one of the menus, details below. https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10415/can-i-see-how-much-bandwidth-a-video-call-is-using
Ask them to post a status update on facebook, including their location (link) ? They can set privacy for you only to see. Location can be turned on or off at any time on facebook and most other sites...so privacy worries can't be used as an excuse.
Yeah you can trace a skype call. You can do it using network tools and on a variety of OS platforms but there is a way that wll give you some info quite simply on a windows PC. What you do is this. Before the skype call. Open a command prompt on the PC. (Type 'cmd' to get the black MS dos window) type netstat -a Capture everything that is output and store it in a document. Start the call. type netstat -a again. Capture everything that is output and store it in a second document. Analyse the differences between the two outputs. With any luck you will see an extra connection to an IP address. This is the skype connection of your call. You then trace that IP in the usual way using an online IPtrace tool.
Yeah but you cannot tell if that is a proxy, also since 2012 Skype has no longer been a fully peer to peer system it goes through Microsoft's servers now, how much of the actual voice or video call is routed through Microsoft is open to discussion but I would not rely on the IP address being that of the ultimate endpoint.
agreed. You may be mislead by the info. But it does no harm to try. However if you were to also open say a yahoo messenger video chat you could do the same thing and get another set of info. I would try tracing video connections (rather than text chats) because they are much more likely to be peer to peer.
It can be done via an unfixed flaw but I don't think your approach is going to get the real endpoint address. http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/05/01/skype-knew-of-security-flaw-since-november-2010-researchers-say/ In this case however if the lady were to identify an IP address that was nowhere near where her conversation partner said they were from (say a Microsoft server in the USA) she might assume she was being scammed when in fact the guy on the other end was completely innocent. I don't have resources to test the IP Dump method at the moment as I only have once Skype account but you would have to physically test your method to be sure it worked.
I haven't tried it on Skype recently. As you say, it depends. I did in on yahoo video chat a few years back and it worked though. Perhaps it might be easier for the original poster to just find out by his whereabouts by more conventional means. There are plenty of ways of hiding your true ip address.
Just to be sure, this man is not playing games with me....I am tired to talk with liars and dishonest person online.
I tried a few years back to trace a Yahoo Messenger contact but Yahoo Messenger was routing via its own severs, so it was not possible. You would have more chance of finding the IP address on a peer-to-peer network but, even then, you cannot be sure the IP address of your contact is not masked by some VPN. But I do know it is possible to reveal the true IP address on peer-to-peer networks that utilise WebRTC, even when using a VPN. Try going to this website with a WebRTC-enabled browser (Chrome or Firefox) when using a VPN... https://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc Skype does not use WebRTC but I think Hangouts does. So, inviting them to use Hangouts and using NetStat may reveal an answer. Just say that you cannot get Skype to work anymore.
Terrorists do the same to prove their hostages are still alive. Another thing you can do is look to see what electrical wall sockets there are on view and then try to match them with the country that person is supposed to be in.
