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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Towards Street-Level Client-Independent IP
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Fri Apr 8 13:58:32 2011
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Towards Street-Level Client-Independent IP Geolocation
http://j.mp/hZWbIi (Usenix [PDF])
We have developed a client-independent geolocation system able to
geolocate IP addresses with more than an order of magnitude
better precision than the best previous method.
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This is interesting work. However, in many cases the results seem not
to be of significantly more accuracy in the described contexts than
would simply be directly using the published address for the entities
involved. And several of the aspects that currently qualify specific
addresses and tests for exclusion (as probable inaccurate data) would
seem likely to represent an ever larger proportion of the real-world
situation over time, as more servers move to distant cloud-based,
rather than locally-based, infrastructures.
--Lauren--
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