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This Phishing email... What is the IP? (programming.dev)

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, IPv4 addresses use four bytes. Those four bytes are represented as four decimal numbers, separated by dots. And a byte can only represent the decimal values 0–255.