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Latitude/Longitude of IPs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-to-play-with dept.

FigWig sent us something goofy to play with if you need some data to help aim the ICBMs you have leftover in your basement from the last major holiday. This site allows you to get the latitude/longitude of any IP address.

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  1. Very Old, Very Inaccurate. by BadlandZ · · Score: 2
    I remember getting harassing emails (with physical threats) from a guy a couple years ago. He was using HotMail (one of the free, anonymous emails) to send letters to me about what he was going to do. I couldn't figure out who could actually be a that angry with me, so my only clue was to track him through the net.

    Well, with some investigation, and the help of a few other System Administrators, I got his exact location, and narrowed down the suspects to a single computer lab, which told let me figure out who it was (one of the ex-boyfriends of a girl I was dating frequented that computer lab, and he was a nut).

    But, during this process, I the tricks I used to track him were some of these IP to Longitude and Lattitude things, and found them wildly inaccurate. It gave me his position as a networking center, and he was actually on the oppisite end of the state. The networking center held the ownership for this IP block, and therefore was the position of the IP address that was returned. But infact, this center was NOT his location, because the internal network was elabraote enough that he was actually in a related facility on the other end of the state that I tracked him to.

    It wasn't the IP to Longitude and Lattitude thing that helped, it was more network tools, routing information, and mostly good System Administrators willing to help that did the job.

    BTW, for what it's worth, HotMail was no help what-so-ever either. They canceled his account, and he quickly just got another through them, and kept sending stuff.

  2. Not mirroring... caching! by discHead · · Score: 2

    Just set up a Squid server to act like The Anonymizer does. Call it http://effect.slashdot.org/ or something. Have a bunch of people volunteer to run this Squid setup, and use round-robin DNS to have effect.slashdot.org point to all of them. Then have the external links in Slashdot stories point to http://effect.slashdot.org/http://tiny.wimpy.site/ instead of directly to http://tiny.wimpy.site/.

  3. the anti-/. effect by kslawson · · Score: 2

    Next on Rob's list of things to do should be automatic mirroring of sites linked from Slashdot...

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    Give an infinite number of monkeys infinite bandwidth and they'll eventually take themselves seriously and write /