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| schestowitz | > Given your actual location it could be a coincidence. | Oct 18 01:25 |
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| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > They typically "know" by where the ISP is located, so rather than being | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > very "accurate" you may just live very close to the ISP that it reports | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > as being where "you" are. | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe go to a nearby town (I realise you aren't going out much) and try | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > it again, see if it's just as accurate.) You're going to say but at home | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > you use wired eth or something-- doesn't matter, as far as this goes an | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > AP is likely an AP. Unless you're using 4G or somthing, that part is | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > moot. It probably only "looks" accurate. | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > schestowitz | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > weird, how does gnome maps know my location on the map? | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > Oct 16 08:07 | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > <http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-161020.html#tOct | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > 16 08:07:50> | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > schestowitz | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | > with high accuracy (39 meters)? | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | It does, on the map, show 5 houses from where I am.... | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | No bluetooth or xG or anything. Just Wi-Fi on a wired home hub. It should typically point to some other (distant) place in the same city, so I wonder where the location is obtained from and whether the browser too can fetch that info. | Oct 18 01:25 |
| schestowitz | If Google Maps is run from a home on a MOBILE network it should have an accuracy down to a few meters, but this is just a laptop. | Oct 18 01:25 |
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| schestowitz | >> If Google Maps is run from a home on a MOBILE network it should have | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > an accuracy down to a few meters, but this is just a laptop. | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > If I was paranoid I'd think maybe it's asking your phone or some other | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > Wifi/4G device. Maybe your phone is broadcasting its coordinates over | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > the Wifi for other things to grab it. Wouldn't that be nice? | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > I mean these are devices that talk with televisions now to transmit | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > beacons over ultrasound. But I still think it's a bit paranoid to | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > assume. Doesn't mean it's not doing it though. I mean I think it's | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > unlikely, but it's not impossible. | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > My first thought would be whether your laptop has a GPS, because a few | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > do. Typically the ones that are capable of 3G or 4G. I had one with such | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > a wireless broadband adapter. So I removed the little board for it. | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > I'm intrigued. If you learn more or figure it out, I want to know. | Oct 18 06:57 |
| schestowitz | It is not impossible that when phones connected to our open wifi, they then associated its physical address with a hardware address? Either way, GNOME Maps somehow 'knew' where the IP was... getting it only 20-30 meters wrong. I don't think FREE software applications should be able to obtain that much info. Nowadays with "telemetry" and all they would be able to accurately maps their users worldwide. | Oct 18 06:57 |
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