On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:47:12 -0700, "Rob Slade, doting Grandpa of Rayn, > Trevor, Devon, and Hannah" said: >> Computers can find out (or somebody can find out) where a specific computer >> is when they are on the net. (And you have to be on the net to get time >> updates.) Some Websites use this (sometimes startlingly accurate) >> information >> in a variety of amusing (and sometimes annoying or frightening) ways. So it >> is >> quite possible for a laptop to find out what time zone it is in, when it >> updates the time. > > Well, sure - *if* you're willing to accept the fact that if geolocation gets > it > wrong, you just missed your meeting. And it's not perfect. Don't believe me, > wander over to the NANOG archives and search for all the postings where people > have gotten screwed over because they're in New Jersey but somebody's > geolocation thinks they are in France... I saw similar when I was in Maine a couple of winters. For some reason, the geolocation database thought I was in Canada (it did not muck with time zone data, though).
Perhaps laptops need a GPS? Jeff _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
