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Old 9th October 2008, 04:30 AM
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I remembered one mashadite, claiming that he can never be traced on the net, and I also told him, your knowledge is only limited to what you have access to.

Now this product has bone commercial and it has implications on how we use the net and slowly anonymity is being rid of in the web. next will be the far reaching effect of the change in TCP/IP from 32 bit to 128 bit encoding, this has now been going on for a while, it will get to a time, the only thing you will block with your 100+ firewalls will be viruses only, but all other info will be retrieved from your machine - A big hand to homeland security.

More here: BBC NEWS | Technology | Firefox users gain location tool

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers.

The system will allow users, for instance, to find local restaurants when they travel to a new town.

The Geode project is an experimental add-on ahead of a full blown launch of geolocation technology in version 3.1 of Firefox.

Users will have control over how much location information they give.

It uses technology from a firm called Skyhook which works out a computer's location from nearby wireless networks.

Its so-called Loki system can determine location within seconds with an accuracy of about 10 to 20 metres.
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