On 21/03/2013 09:23, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 20 March 2013 21:29, Masataka Ohta <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> > wrote: >> Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >> >>> Why even stop there: all modern browsers usually know the exact >>> location of the user, often with street-level accuracy. >> >> If you think mobile, they don't, especially because "often" is >> not at all "enough times". > > Are you suggesting that geolocation is inaccurate enough to misplace > Europe with Asia?
I don't think that it is even a suggestion. It is trivially achievable: I have a transit provider which is a US based company. They route a small slice of their IP space to us over the transit link... at their PoP in London... where I pick it up and route it to Johannesburg. All the while - geolocation is convinced those IPs reside in the hometown of my transit provider. I also know of many people who use VPNs to intentionally goelocate themselves somewhere other than their real location in order to get around certain content filtering. -- Graham Beneke
