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Brown Sauce
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject: geolocation and google spying |
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| Quote: | Geolocation is the identification of your actual geographic location in the real world using information that your computer or cell phone/mobile phone sometimes unknowingly supplies.
The reason for this practise is - as it always is - money. Because there's money to be made if a company knows what your surfing habits are and how they can couple that knowledge to the place where you live or are at that moment in time. These companies can use targeted advertising to offer you free stuff or rebates in a shop near you. |
http://no-geolocation.blogspot.com/
| Quote: | One visit to a booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person's home, a security expert has shown.
The attack, thought up by hacker Samy Kamkar, exploits shortcomings in many routers to find out a key identification number.
It uses this number and widely available net tools to find out where a router is located.
Demonstrating the attack, Mr Kamkar located one router to within nine metres of its real world position.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10850875
interested ? then go to
http://no-geolocation.blogspot.com/
to find out how to turn this piece of invadeware off ... |
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faceless
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| that's interesting for sure - I checked mine and it's saying I'm located in the city centre, so no problem. |
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Sera_6969
Joined: 23 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for posting this Brown Sauce. |
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Brown Sauce
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:56 am Post subject: |
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whilst doing what is suggested on the blog will get rid of geolocation, it won't help of course with geo ip location ..
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gordonrussell
Joined: 22 Oct 2011
Location: Glasgow UK
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Went to the no-geolocation.blogspot.com then to
benwerd.com/lab/geo.php and tried to right click for page info and the mouse locked with the screen vibrating.Had to power off and reboot.
Bit freaky .
Came back here scrolled down a bit and Brown Sauce's Google map had my IP address and located me to within 3 miles.
Freaky Part Two...... |
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