[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi,

On 02/06/2010, at 9:09 AM, Lincoln Dale wrote:

> On 02/06/2010, at 8:41 AM, Jeremy Begg wrote:
>>> http://html5demos.com/geo
>> 
>> Hmm.  It doesn't seem to be particularly up-to-date.  I tried it here in my
>> office and it shows my location as somewhere on King William St, Adelaide
>> -- approximately the location of an Internode data centre where our Internet
>> access originated until 10 months ago.
> 
> its "accurate" as of when the google street view car last trundled down the road past your SSID + MAC address of your 802.11 AP.

Not sure how tongue-in-cheek that comment's meant to be!

I can see how that might be the case for some sites, but it doesn't explain us.
Our Internet connection was provided by a PAPL link to Internode's data centre;
our WiFi a/p is in our office (and hasn't moved).

	Jeremy