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- Buttercup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Can you people please stop spamming stories that go to the front page faster than others? no one cares. stop pushing your alarmist anti-everything views on the rest of us. go eat a cookie.
- esoteric, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14correct most of the time a physical location of a traceroute is inaccurate to where you are specifically. you need to understand how it works, when it locates you physically on a map it is mapping the SDP (service delivery point) that you are connected too. Even if that is 200 miles away that is what information is publicly accessible and in these traceroute phyiscal location databases.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11My traceroute went from Antarctica and beyond the map in the north. :(
Here's a screenshot:
http://www.disaffect.com/arch/traceroutev.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It's fairly accurate for me, it's just in a neighboring town.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@carguy84:
It works fine in Firefox for me, but then again I don't have tons of extension installed, so that might be why. Adblock breaks some stuff and makes firefox just generally unstable I've found, so if you are using that it could be why. - javajunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It hosed Firefox 1.0.8, running on kubuntu 5.10.
- leptonbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cool concept...Not to accurate.
- Xalorous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3nevermind (oh and use the spellchecker - maping?)
- klbclem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Java runs in a platform independant sandbox, its decently secure, however if there was a bug in the JVM allowing applets to get out of said sandbox your mac would easily be toast, as well as any other computer, because the JVM is platform independent and bytecode outside of a sandbox runs the same on every system (though firewalls/AV and permissions can limit its access on any system).
How do ya like dem apples? - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Cool idea...too bad it wasn't more accurate.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Wow, don't even think about clicking to that page. It crashes Firefox, and locks up IE so you can't even close the browser.
JAVA Applets are so 1995. Where's the dancing baby?
Cool idea, poor execution. - fani, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Not at all accurate. Its just looking up the WHOIS ARIN info and auto mapping in Google Map API.
Not even cool. This is the domain registrar's location, not the box location.
Also, www.cnn.com gave "Host not found"
No digg for this sillyness which is inaccurate. - smokeyghetto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its great that all of you trusted a certificate to access your entire computer from a story on Digg.
Social engineering at its best.
Hope you all have a mac. - Sithlrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Lame ass javacrap. Crashed Firefox after loading up 100 meg of ***** onto my system.
- JoshuaWood, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4a tracerout from my office to one of the sites we host (in a room next to me) went from pa > dc to ct to the UK > Germany > Las Vegas > TX > PA crazy!
- kacymartin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not too bad for me, It puts me near the runway of the airport about a mile and a half away.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Okay, Houston, right city, but about 5-7 miles off or so
- klbclem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jo42 and a junkload of others
OK just so eveyone whos complaining about the applet being wrong knows the deal, most ISPs are CHEAP, and it cost MONEY to hook into an internet backbone, large ISPs have very few locations where they hook up to the 'real' internet and small ISPs will search for a cheap place to hook up (often through another provider). This is why your ISP thats lets say based or has a major routing network server in Miami may show up as Atlanta. The other option is that there WHOIS information is wrong, which happens sometimes with smaller companies but not with the larger ones. - klbclem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol..people are funny that way, they don't understand how it works.
- BBbaxter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ya, I agree. I wonder if they can hear their hard drives spinning madly while someone is poaching their tax return info.
- klbclem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it works great...its most likely your plugins that are F**d up. i have never had a problem with java and firefox
- klbclem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DC has a major internet backbone to get to most sites, well, just about anywhere, apparently its your closest network backbone (in terms of logical hops or pings or bandwidth/availibility depending on how they map the connection, not nescisarily location). And not to devalue your self-worth but the NSA doesn't care about all the porn your looking at.
- fl00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Charter Communications blocks traceroutes. Anybody know why?
- slantyeyed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i like the dumb ass who's mystified that his web server is in another state than he is.
- Kickasso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1most accurate one i've ever seen. this one was like 100 metres wrong. most are like 50 km. off. DIGG
- jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Busted...
Thought an IP in Miami was in Atlanta.
--digg; - bobmagoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3wow, that link killed firefox twice on my G5
- miketrin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How many marked as lame does it need to vanish?
- Shoey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I hope this isn't correct because if it is I'm kinda scared as to why no matter what I do my route goes right through Washington DC. Knowing what we know now about the NSA, I wouldn't be surprised if the telecoms were routing all internet traffic through the NSA."
You're not the only one. A friend pointed this out for me last night, and it is true for me too. Anyone else notice this? - RexKwando, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Once you get past the bugs, this site is pretty damn cool. Don't take the information as it may be the word of god, but as an estimation. You diggers need to lighten up.
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, it's a Java applet, keep up.
- clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually from the very first page this "traceroute" is way off (places me 400 miles away from where I really am).
- pabster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Opera handled it just fine.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Worked perfectly for me. Why is this on a site calle CODEFROMTHE70s.ORG? If this is code from the seventies, the government can surely see me at my desk roight now!
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope this isn't correct because if it is I'm kinda scared as to why no matter what I do my route goes right through Washington DC. Knowing what we know now about the NSA, I wouldn't be surprised if the telecoms were routing all internet traffic through the NSA.
- thegrundle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it crashed my firefox but it showed me exactly where i was. Then again the hub for the cable company is right across the street.
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, THE munkt0n of 4rthur fame?
- mercano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Apperntly, I am working in Washington DC, not Vermont, like I thought. You learn something new every day.
- dawks-, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5The site F'ed up my firefox. I couldn't change tabs by clicking them.. firefox.exe was stuck using 70-80%CPU, tried closing it, by the process kept running.. had to ctrl+alt+del it.
though it was probably java messing it up. i hate java!! - unilogic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Works just fine in Firefox... and yes its a java applet so it will take a few seconds to load up the JVM.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Java + Firefox = Bad Idea
- lexbaby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Same here! FF 1.5.0.3 on Windows 2000.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It crashed all of my Firefox sessions.
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Ya, it says my connection from work to my house (5 miles) is going out to the DFW area (which would be right) then hops....... to the United Kingdom? then back to my house. It's gonna need some work.
- Kujila, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Apparantly I'm in Texas and I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT! :o
- pizzza, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That's all? It crashed my Firefox 1.5.0.3.
- dombi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Wow... they are really, really off.
- rebelmessiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very scarily for me it put me on the Isle of Man...
- imfm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, that is funny! It got my IP right, and even the name of the town, except I didn't recognize any of the surrounding names on the map. I zoomed out a few times and I appear to have been magically transported to MD, which I'm sure is a nice state, but I live in IL and my ISP is based in MO. Same town name, wrong state.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Java? Surely they mean JavaScript...and I do have JavaScript enabled....
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