How to Disable Geolocation in Specific Programs

Feuer Frei! · 04-05-11, 08:10 AM

Geolocation is a rather secret feature of some browsers and toolbars. It allows the creator of that program to get a fix on the location of your computer to within a few meters of where you actually live. For the potential dangers read the article from BBC News entitled 'Web attack knows where you live' here.

SOURCE AND HOW TO DISABLE

Fubar2Niner · 04-05-11, 11:49 AM

Big Brother gets ever closer

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Arclight · 04-05-11, 01:02 PM

Ha! People complaining about the security issues of IE all the time, and now it turns out it's the only one not spying on you.

longam · 04-05-11, 05:31 PM

Knowing where you are has always been available via trace route and your IP address.

Gargamel · 04-05-11, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by longam

Knowing where you are has always been available via trace route and your IP address.

Regardless of your browser...

I remember a lot of people used to put up your address or IP in their sig. That little smiley guy holding the sign?

jumpy · 04-05-11, 06:45 PM

So this looks like it's dependent on googles harvesting of wi-fi points?
So if your router isn't wi-fi?

Arclight · 04-06-11, 03:33 AM

Then they can't triangulate it and have to resort to the regular IP trace, I guess.

Not as accurate, but plenty accurate for marketing purposes.

04-05-11, 08:10 AM	#1
Feuer Frei! Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Valhalla Posts: 5,295 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 17	How to Disable Geolocation in Specific Programs Geolocation is a rather secret feature of some browsers and toolbars. It allows the creator of that program to get a fix on the location of your computer to within a few meters of where you actually live. For the potential dangers read the article from BBC News entitled 'Web attack knows where you live' here. SOURCE AND HOW TO DISABLE __________________ "History is the lies that the victors agree on"- Napoleon LINK TO MY SH 3 MODS

04-05-11, 01:02 PM	#3
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Ha! People complaining about the security issues of IE all the time, and now it turns out it's the only one not spying on you. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

04-05-11, 06:45 PM	#6
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	So this looks like it's dependent on googles harvesting of wi-fi points? So if your router isn't wi-fi? __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

04-06-11, 03:33 AM	#7
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Then they can't triangulate it and have to resort to the regular IP trace, I guess. Not as accurate, but plenty accurate for marketing purposes. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

04-05-11, 11:49 AM	#2
Fubar2Niner Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London. UK Posts: 4,139 Downloads: 276 Uploads: 0	Big Brother gets ever closer Best regards. Fubar2Niner

04-05-11, 05:31 PM	#4
longam Admiral Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,014 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Knowing where you are has always been available via trace route and your IP address.