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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight michele at blacknight.ie
Mon Nov 20 17:29:02 GMT 2006


Dave O Connor wrote:
> Geolocation is pretty accurate these days, certainly to the city
> level. 
> Any web service can tell who you are to the city level pretty
> accurately without any prior information. 

That might be true outside this country, but it isn't if you look at any of
the Irish broadband providers.

All you can tell by looking at an IP is that it belongs to ISP X and that it
*might* be on a particular exchange.. That doesn't mean that the person is
anywhere even near the exchange



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