What's more frightening is that it told me where I was located and I didn't even visit the website.
nym http://igargoyle.com/ On 4/18/06, Kevin Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh but Mike said that his proxy was NOT passing that information, > and was gathering data some other way. > > Kevin > > On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > > It may not be so complex; many proxies (e.g. squid) will pass on a > > header > > to the remote HTTP server containing the proxy client's IP address. > > > > http://www.linofee.org/~jel/proxy/Squid/rel-notes-1_1.html#x > > > > --j. > > > > Mike Liebhold writes: > >> Kevin Elliott wrote: > >> > >>> Can you elaborate on what you believe they are doing? > >> > >> The most plausible answer is that some website that has my address > >> that > >> I volunteered to recieve a service or to buy something, matched my > >> street address to my IP address and sold the data to an IP gelocation > >> agregator. > >> > >>> > >>> Kevin > >>> > >>> > >>>> http://local.live.com/ > >>>> > >>>> My home IP address is officially registerd to a proxy server in San > >>>> Diego. I'm connected via satellite behind the proxy from a very > >>>> remote location in northern California, and yet the findme utility > >>>> properly identified my actual geographic position. The satellite > >>>> service provider has -not- revealed my actual address. ( I checked > >>>> with friends in their net ops center.) The data for local.live.com > >>>> was purchased from a commercial ip geolocation service who > >>>> determined my actual, rural location using undisclosed mechanisms. > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Geowanking mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geowanking mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
