At 20:56 +0200 25/7/14, Martin Barry wrote: > ... I'd be curious what you get when you visit >https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate_my_ip
That inspired me to do one of my occasional checks. Previously, I've usually been in a state forest some km E of the airport. But my TPG-supplied IP-address now places me at about Bulls Head: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-35.4171,+148.7769&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=60.158465,62.402344&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&ll=-35.40808,148.922424&spn=0.983862,0.975037&t=m&z=10 That's a car-park beside an unsealed road in the Brindabellas, on the way to the Mt Franklin and Mt Gingera walks, about 25km WSW of my actual location. (That's as the crow flies. It's >50km by road). I'd like to think that all this derives from nat-sec-inspired obfuscation of the national mapping system, so that Soviet nucs don't rain down on the middle of Canberra. But rational explanations are seldom right in Canberra even generally, let alone in nat-sec contexts. -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
