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[allstarsplus]

Stretch - Your link is interesting as it took me to a commercial building in an adjoining city while the other program took me right to the person's home.

Amazing zooming in on these.

I have been contacted by a few clowns that I can now pinpoint more about who they are with this law enforcement tool. Even that I was told is not 100% since some can mask their locations well. In this case, I got the person I was looking for as I then cross-referenced their street address to a database. BINGO!

[rj_lucas]

Stretch - Your link is interesting as it took me to a commercial building in an adjoining city while the other program took me right to the person's home.

The geotool servlet is looking at the first range of numbers in the IP address, which pinpoints the location of the ISP. That's why it's showing you a commercial building.

The law enforcement tool is using the last range of numbers, which pinpoints the specific geo-location of the user's network.

Stretch, you don't obtain a proxy. It's an external server (usually a hub of servers) set up for the explicit purpose of masking an IP. Yes, there are 'free' proxies out there. They leave audit trails that are relatively easy to follow back to the originating IP, or at least the ISP.

Bottom line, as Andrew can attest, privacy is an complete illusion where the Internet is concerned. If more people understood that, it would probably cut down on the malicious behavior.

Rick
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