Re: internet probe can track you within 690 m

[Franck Martin <fmartin () linkedin com>]

Don't forget the use for 911 type services.

On 4/12/11 8:10 , "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen () mompl net> wrote:

> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20336-internet-probe-can-track-you-d
> own-to-within-690-metres.html
> "The new method zooms in through three stages to locate a target
> computer. The first stage measures the time it takes to send a data
> packet to the target and converts it into a distance ­ a common
> geolocation technique that narrows the target's possible location to a
> radius of around 200 kilometres.
> (..)
> Finally, they repeat the landmark search at this more fine-grained
> level: comparing delay times once more, they establish which landmark
> server is closest to the target. The result can never be entirely
> accurate, but it's much better than trying to determine a location by
> converting the initial delay into a distance or the next best IP-based
> method. On average their method gets to within 690 metres of the target
> and can be as close as 100 metres ­ good enough to identify the target
> computer's location to within a few streets."
>
> It seems to me to be a rather flaky way of finding out your estimated
> locat