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Originally Posted by masraum
OK, so even simplified, there is a LOT of info/stuff that's got to come together to locate you down to the level of your house, or even within a 4 house radius.
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Do you think that the telco keeps track of which wire the IP is attached to and publishes that information to Google? ....
Nope, it's not IP subnetting. That may be looked at, but it's far too vague to be used to pinpoint unless you've got systems designed to do it, and based on my work as a network engineer for a service provider and a few Enterprise businesses, I'm pretty sure, they don't look at the info unless they absolutely have to. If the FBI comes knocking, they have to be able to provide it, but it's just held in a database that never gets looked at.
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Steve, take off your network engineering hat for a minute. Google is a repository of information that I'm sure is "data mined" extensively. You realize that every connection to Pelican is also connecting to Google severs as are many other high volume sites and I'd bet they're tracking the info which is flowing back and forth which is source/destination IP addresses (no MACs, no SSIDs, etc.). IP is pretty simple, it doesn't take much of a stretch to foresee them getting a pretty accurate "network picture" imo. It simply HAS to be IP based at it's fundamental core with a lots of the blanks filled in by other techniques (smartphone, etc.) mapped overtop...I'd bet on it...a whole quarter, that's how sure I am
. This is an interesting discussion however...you guys are making me put on a hat I haven't worn in quite a few years and I'm sure I'm a bit off has my head has shrunk. Thanks for making me think...if I'm wrong, then shoot me and give me my .02 back