[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Tony]

Hi,

--- On Wed, 2/6/10, Jeremy Begg <jeremy at vsm.com.au> wrote:

From: Jeremy Begg <jeremy at vsm.com.au>

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).

My suspicion is that if they don't have the accurate data (ie. can't match your SSID/MAC from their last street view wardrive) they fall back to other information such as whois data from the IP address you have and where that IP address is registered to.

I've checked with a few people and if it they aren't "found" then their location seems to be given as the somewhere in the CBD of either BNE/SYD for the ones I tested.


regards,
Tony.



      
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