[SGVLUG] PRIVACY???

Dennis Birney DennisBirney at msn.com
Mon Sep 26 12:58:59 PDT 2005


Have you ever noticed what happens to a stack of dominoes lined up on a flat
surface when you tip over the one on the end?

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NSA granted Net location-tracking
patent
CNET News.com Sept. 21, 2005
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The National Security Agency has
obtained a patent on a method of
figuring out an Internet user's
geographic location. Patent
6,947,978 describes a way to
discover someone's physical location
by comparing it to a "map" of
Internet addresses with known
locations. The NSA's patent relies
on measuring the latency, meaning
the time lag between...
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