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Re: GeoIP information
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:51:50 -0400
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com> wrote:
I assumed it must be based off of WHOIS. The IP space I'm working with is in the midwest (US). The address associated with it is from our primary IP block out here in California, which it would have only been able to gather from WHOIS. If it had gone off the last hop, presumably it would have seen that as something a little closer to the real location rather than *exactly* where our primary environment is. :)
They could also do RDNS lookups and then see what rwhois says about the domain. They could purchase sales records from online retailers. Hey guys, give us the IP address, city, state and zip code for each sale; we'll pay you a nickle each. Then correlate that with BGP announcements that show the range of impacted addresses. They could convince folks to install web browser plugins which give the users rewards in exchange for ceding personal information. Or buy data from a company which does. -Bill -- William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
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- Re: GeoIP information Josh Luthman (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Roland Dobbins (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Ray Van Dolson (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Ian Clark (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Ian Clark (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Ray Van Dolson (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Fred Hollis (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Roland Dobbins (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Stephen Satchell (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Clay Curtis (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Ray Van Dolson (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Roland Dobbins (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Clay Curtis (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 25)
- Re: GeoIP information William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: GeoIP information Baldur Norddahl (Sep 25)