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theweaselkingWho knew?
Newsflash: No new information has been exposed, to no new people. The only thing that's happened is that it's become clearer to you that you've been sharing something roughly equivalent to your area code + exchange, or the first half of your postal/zip code, with every comment.
Which is, for the record, still WAAAAAAAAY less information that you give away every time you send an email.
Newsflash: No new information has been exposed, to no new people. The only thing that's happened is that it's become clearer to you that you've been sharing something roughly equivalent to your area code + exchange, or the first half of your postal/zip code, with every comment.
Which is, for the record, still WAAAAAAAAY less information that you give away every time you send an email.
re sending an email
Date: 2011-06-10 11:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-10 11:56 pm (UTC)You didn't already? Scary scary people in the comments. I'm giving up.
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Date: 2011-06-11 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 12:49 am (UTC)But, y'know...
There are some people with a valid reason for people not to know it's them, but it's not like LJ hasn't been warning them for ages.
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Date: 2011-06-11 12:52 am (UTC)I'm 408 miles (650km) from Minneapolis!
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Date: 2011-06-11 01:06 am (UTC)(One of your company's IP blocks is in Minneapolis, likely because their ISP had an office there and has never updated the physical location stuff. There's lots of blocks like that.)
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Date: 2011-06-11 01:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 01:28 am (UTC)(WAAAAAAAAY back, I used to work for an ISP whose head office was in Seattle. My direct connection to the internet, which did not at any time go through that half of the continent, popped up as being in "Seattle" because the IP we were using was owned in Seattle, even though routing took us nowhere near there.)
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Date: 2011-06-11 01:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 01:47 am (UTC)Similarly, naive IP-address-querying code claims I'm in Colchester, when I am in fact in Glasgow. That's about as wrong as you can possibly be in the UK.
If you actually pay money for a proper geolocation system, I suspect you'd get better results. LiveJournal doesn't, and that's fine - they don't really care.
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Date: 2011-06-11 01:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 02:10 am (UTC)Yup.
Oh, sorry, you were talking about distance...
When I lived in Torquay, I used either Tiscali or Wanadoo as my dial up ISP (no broadband in that building, dodgy wiring and dodgy landlord).
Lots of certain types of websites used to advertise dates with young women in Watford, took me awhile to figure out why.
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Date: 2011-06-11 02:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 04:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 05:29 am (UTC)a friend of mine had a *personal* b class allocation for years. he fastidiously paid renewal fees to ensure he kept it. i might ask him if he still has it.
my home ip addr is pretty accurate, but my work addresses are all over the map. doubly so if i use any of our vpns. (i'm an academic. we have campuses in crazy places, and 'arrangements' with other institutions as well.)
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Date: 2011-06-11 06:08 am (UTC)people construct theories about 'how things work' - and when they don't comply, people get shitty. and it's damnably difficult to get them to grasp that their 'theory' ain't how the thing actually works. [aka learninating them be haaard]
sigh. exposing how the magic works gets you no brownie points. they don't *want* to look behind the curtain ...
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Date: 2011-06-11 11:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 04:49 pm (UTC)Also Google defaults to searching in French.
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Date: 2011-06-14 04:17 am (UTC)The argument in favour of adopting single-blind peer review for that economic journal is that, since a reviewer can trivially find out the identity of the author of the paper they are reviewing by googling, there is no need to keep it secret.
The argument for keeping double-blind peer review is that most people don't bother finding out the identity of the author of the paper they are reviewing.
Ditto for this location deobfuscation thing. Deobfuscation is not an entirely harmless act.
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Date: 2011-06-14 11:39 am (UTC)Take me, for example - I identified your ISP immediately from your IP, and was about 50% sure on the city - and when I checked, I was right on both. And this is not unusual!
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Date: 2011-06-14 07:37 pm (UTC)Conversely, it wouldn't make sense for LJ to automatically decode every post written in ROT13, even though decoding ROT13 is trivial.
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Date: 2011-06-14 07:47 pm (UTC)