Sounds delightful. Tell me more.
Posted on 03/11/2015 8:50:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
You work at RIPE Networks. Very kewl!
(That’s as far as I go with a corporate network!)
One hop across the country or globe to a server with fraudulently filled out paperwork will effectively hide the physical location of the server. There is nothing intrinsic to an http packet that discloses its physical location. All the various IP ‘location’ tools rely on the assumption that you are physically close to the last IP that has properly filled out information on file. Now you can use latency and other forensics to narrow it down, but it’s still largely guesswork. And as mentioned above, internet IP addys and cell phones are two completely different animals.
Sounds delightful. Tell me more.
I doubted the infamous server was in her Chapaqua home as it would likely take more than an Internet connection from the local cable company.
Google maps zeros in on my location at work or home when I open the initial page. https://www.google.com/maps
Which is odd, because Maxmind has the IP 31.220.2.30 located in Belize. However, if you do a traceroute, the penultimate hop is located in France.
“The publicly visible IP address of the domain means absolutely nothing other than who is hosting the domain.”
No, that’s not necessarily true. Many ISPs assign blocks of IP addresses geographically, so it is very possible, if that info is publicly available, to narrow it down to a geographic area from the IP address. No, you won’t get a street address from that, but it can tell you what city, or even what neighborhood the IP address was assigned to.
If you can get access to the ISP’s records, then you absolutely could narrow it down to a specific street address.
Sure, but it would be useless on a mail server, because then none of your clients could find the server to retrieve their mail.
And how could they claim someone else was at fault if it was there?
Getting info from the ISP goes further than an IP trace.
Harlem is considered uptown around 120th Street.
Downtown Manhattan would be in the vicinity of 42nd Street and south to 14th Street (Union Square).
George Soros or Ratner’s house. ;-{
” I wondered why the hell anyone would hack MY server with nothing but head shots of Division III college athletes on it.”
Because it was a server, that’s why. When hackers want to share stuff, they don’t do it on their own servers, because that can be traced back to them. It’s much better to hack someone else’s insecure server, set up your own hidden fileshare, and enable anonymous ftp access for whatever you want to distribute.
Yes, but that’s probably not info they got from your IP address. Google keeps records of your usage and analyzes it, and they probably noticed, on that computer, you always started looking for directions from the same address. Basically, you told them where your computer was located :)
Google maps pretty much pinpoints my house, if I allow geolocation in my browser. Otherwise, it only knows my town (based on an IP database lookup).
The geolocation feature on devices that don't have GPS (i.e., your computer, not your smartphone) relies on a database of WiFi access point locations collected by Google Street View when the googlewagen cruises by your house. See this Stackoverflow question.
My brother has been running our private mail server for years, he uses Ice Warp I think. It is not that difficult, simple desktop and a fat pipe connection.
Cell phone tracking is different than finding the location of an IP address. The cell phone sends out a regular signal, to check in with the towers nearby. Even if you don’t have access to the towers, there are portable devices that can intercept that signal and then you can triangulate the location if you have enough of those devices.
Yeah, but he discovered it from hacking Sid Blumenthal’s email account, and finding emails from Hillary to that account under the private address.
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