Yesterday, I may have violated Privacy Laws of several jurisdictions when I tried to "Geo-Locate" my torrent peers. Oh, I wasn't stalking. I was just fueled by a healthy curiosity as to who were also downloading the movie "Perfume: The Story of A Murderer," and as to WHERE these people are. Bwahahaha. Fade evil laugh. Enter Twilight Zone theme song.
Naturally, what I did was to Google several websites using “IP address” and “find people” as my search parameters. For my agenda, I have chosen this user-friendly website, http://whatismyipaddress.com (which happens to be the first one on the list - yes, computers make us lazy.)
I tried it out first with my own IP address.
I typed it in.
I hit enter.
My eyes became as large as saucers.
Forget the site's caveat: “Geolocation technology can never be 100% accurate in providing the location of an IP address.” Pfft. Really now, it was only off by few miles. Thanks to this Geo-Location map (powered by Google, of course), a satellite view of my village (and our house) can be seen. Zoom in closer and you’d see our dog licking its balls.
*Shudder*
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geez, they got me pretty close! :o
oly hit! you're right Kat, freaky nga, though I now confirmed na isang tao lang nagpapadala nung email sakin :)
I played around with IP address locators a few months ago, too (mostly because I was irked out with Dilnet's numerous restrictions...hehe). Creepy and cool at the same time indeed, though it located the UP Diliman server at Nueva Ecija. Wouldn't want to imagine what military-grade GPS technology can do.
But by the way, there are "IP anonymizers) that can make you virtually untrackable. Free downloads, though I personally haven't tried it :-p
you should have clicked closer one more time, you would have seen the flea. now, that is scary!!!
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