I know where you live...

[fredvries]

Well, not personally of course, but someone could acccording to a news item on BBC News entitled: Web attack knows where you live. Read the entire article here.

I wrote a little post on one of my weblogs on how to disable geolocation on Apple Safari, Apple iPhone, Firefox, Flock, Google Chrome, Google Toolbar and Opera.

See here.

Additional entries are very welcome.

[Edit: Updated this first post for additional programs]

[DavidR]

Since I don't have wifi router, being on dial-up, I'm not google's street mapping database. I don't even know if they see my small village as worth their time bothering to drive out there .

[bob3160]

I'm glad someone knows where I am.
I've been lost for years.....  

[jadinolf]

I'm glad someone knows where I am.
I've been lost for years.....  

You too, eh?

[fredvries]

You might not care unless someone uses that information to burgle your house  :'(

[bob3160]

Tell them to come on over. We'll have a western ho down.

[George Yves]

First, I am not sure that Geolocation can show your real address. I think it only shows the point where your ISP's servers are situated. In my case it shows cities dozens of miles away from mine.

Second, I live in a block of flats and I don't think that Geolocation can show what floor I am living on.

Third, I am on ADSL connection, not on WiFi.


bob3160
And if they have a bigger gun?  

[DavidR]

There is more than one flavour of Geo Location tool the ISP IP address based ones are very inaccurate, they can't even get my county right.

The ones being talked about here is that if you have a wifi router, that will have a MAC address/ID. If googles street cars have been round your neighbourhood they have also been detecting wifi hotspots (and having a look at some of your data too if it isn't completely secure) and they have been recording GPS locations based on that hotspot for google maping, etc.

So they can be very accurate in pinpointing you based on that MAC ID/GPS info on the database.

[sanctuaryforever]

All as I can say is its a scary world out there and getting scarier by the second

[YoKenny]

All as I can say is its a scary world out there and getting scarier by the second

There are a bunch of weirds out there.

[Marc57]

I'm glad someone knows where I am.
I've been lost for years..... 

Gezzz Bob, stop surfing in your underwear, Don't you know we can all see you??   


I also have a toy incase there's trouble.

[SafeSurf]

First, I am not sure that Geolocation can show your real address.

It does if you use Gmail.  I was surprised one day to find my address next to the email I was reading.  Prior to seeing this post, I saw something in another security forum about disabling the Geolocation for my browser, and since, my address no longer appears.  Another tool I have on my machine now shows that my IP is "foreign."  I use a router without WiFi for the machine I tested this on.

[fredvries]

Update of my list of programs that use geolocation.

Added:
Disabling of geolocation for Opera and Apple Safari.

See here.

[fredvries]

Update of my list of programs that use geolocation.

Added:
Disabling of geolocation for Twitter.

See here.

[Asyn]

Well, not personally of course...

So, do you know where I live, or not..??
asyn