Re: Firefox security question

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:40:54 -0500, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:27:49 -0800, basbryan wrote:

One can identify where you live by your IP... Maybe that is where the
popup got the info?

That's certainly possible in my case because I have a static IP which is
linked to my personal domain name which means that a whois would reveal my
address. However most of the world uses dynamic IPs. Are you saying that
doing a lookup on a dynamic IP supplied by a cable or DSL provider would
reliably provide the name of the town?

It's not perfectly reliable, but there is a good correlation between your
IP address and location. Try out the mapping service from Geobytes:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

--
Steve
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