On Monday 18 June 2007 23:20, Rony wrote:
Hello All,
I was searching for firewall testers and came across this link.
http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-surfing.asp
This link tells you what information your pc gives to the website. It shows the ip address which is quite normal, but it also gives an area map of where you are located within Mumbai using google maps.
I am not even on the map which displayed half of mumbai. It does not even show prabhadevi where the mtnl gateway is located.
How does it locate? it's called geoip afaik - a database of ips sorted by country and city and dont forget to draw a suitable large map.
On 20-Jun-07, at 10:54 AM, jtd wrote:
It shows the ip address which is quite normal, but it also gives an area map of where you are located within Mumbai using google maps.
I am not even on the map which displayed half of mumbai. It does not even show prabhadevi where the mtnl gateway is located.
How does it locate? it's called geoip afaik - a database of ips sorted by country and city and dont forget to draw a suitable large map.
you have again added a '*' at the begining of the subject line - please refrain from this
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 11:05, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 20-Jun-07, at 10:54 AM, jtd wrote:
It shows the ip address which is quite normal, but it also gives an area map of where you are located within Mumbai using google maps.
I am not even on the map which displayed half of mumbai. It does not even show prabhadevi where the mtnl gateway is located.
How does it locate? it's called geoip afaik - a database of ips sorted by country and city and dont forget to draw a suitable large map.
you have again added a '*' at the begining of the subject line - please refrain from this
I am not in the habit of editing subject lines. I am recieving some mails from this mailing list with a * and the reply gets the * rating automatically. None of the other mailing list have such a problem.
On 20-Jun-07, at 12:05 PM, jtd wrote:
you have again added a '*' at the begining of the subject line - please refrain from this
I am not in the habit of editing subject lines. I am recieving some mails from this mailing list with a * and the reply gets the * rating automatically. None of the other mailing list have such a problem.
this is just that this is the second time a '*' has been added in a mail by you ...
jtd wrote:
On Monday 18 June 2007 23:20, Rony wrote:
Hello All,
I was searching for firewall testers and came across this link.
http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-surfing.asp
This link tells you what information your pc gives to the website. It shows the ip address which is quite normal, but it also gives an area map of where you are located within Mumbai using google maps.
I am not even on the map which displayed half of mumbai. It does not even show prabhadevi where the mtnl gateway is located.
There could be one possibility that the map is just a starting point. Using the drag hand, you can access the entire city. I noticed that later.
How does it locate? it's called geoip afaik - a database of ips sorted by country and city and dont forget to draw a suitable large map.
Hmm.
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