[90308] in North American Network Operators' Group
network triangulation (Re: Geo location to IP mapping)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Mon May 15 18:18:39 2006
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 22:18:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: sgorman1@gmu.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <f6ecd57a8312b.4468b960@gmu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:24:48 -0400
> From: sgorman1@...
> The NSA was granted a patent for an IP geo-location technology based
> on triangulation using latency measures.
It could probably be foiled by this patented technology:
http://www.tinyurl.com/ebu6t
which is equally reliable and useful. ;-)
ObOp: Latency and jitter cause problems with triangulation. I find
zipcode-level accuracy hard to believe for a predictive system.
Eddy
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