Questions tagged [geolocation]
Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object
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Is there any actual security benefit to restricting foreign IP addresses?
I am currently outside the US trying to log in to my health care provider's website and the connection just times out. I reached out to them on Twitter and they told me that as a security measure they ...
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Can someone know my geolocation by replying to Whatsapp message?
Is there any way a malicious actor could know my geolocation by replying to a Whatsapp message I have sent? Will being connected with a user allow me to see their geolocation, or would I have to reply ...
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How does Hulu know my local time when I am behind a VPN?
To see what would happen, I attempted to access Hulu from a VPN outside the US. As I expected, Hulu detected the VPN. My understanding is that this is because Hulu is aware of the IP address ranges ...
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Can an app access location services when I turn off location services?
An app I'm using requires me to grant it the permission to track my location, which I grant.
But, if I manually toggle off the device's location service (for example in the settings or the drop down ...
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How is Facebook determining my location when I don't have the app installed?
I have done everything that I can think of to prevent companies like Facebook from knowing my actual location, yet recently I've started noticing extremely specific ads from them.
For example, I ...
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How to prevent police from tracing Instagram account? [closed]
I created this fake Instagram account on my phone while using TunnelBear VPN without any links to my ‘real’ account. Now I’m wondering if the police are still able to trace my true location? If so, ...
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Is using a VPN or Proxy the only explanation for a wrong location being displayed?
My boyfriend is using an iPhone XS Max. He is in Johor, Malaysia, but his last active session displays that he is in Kuala Lumpur. He told me that he is in Johor, and he said the only reason why it's ...
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Effects of enabling/disabling location request on a browser
What does enabling/disabling geolocation access to a website on a browser actually mean?
If I disable access to a website, what information will be shared with that particular website server?
If I ...
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How does Google locate me from my laptop?
From this question I learned how Google locates me over BSSIDs.
But how does Google retrieve my WLAN-access-point-BSSID when I use Google's services (maps.google.com for example) in Firefox from a ...
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Is it true that any current smartphone is broadcasting audio and position of its owner even if switched off and not given permission by the owner?
Is it true that any current smartphone is broadcasting audio and position of its owner by design even if switched off and not given permission by the owner to broadcast?
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Block Outbound Connections by Country
We want to reduce the number of phishing sites that our users can get to. Would it be useful or more problematic to block outbound connections by geo IP? We already block many inbound connections by ...
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Country Blocking
I use a Meraki firewall and want to block outside attack attempts. Is there a list of countries that are known to be malicious? I want to load them into the system and GEO block them. I know that some ...
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How can we find server location and IPs? [closed]
Is it possible to find where some known application servers (such as whatsapp) are located and their IPs ?
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Verifying customer check in
I have created a customer loyalty and reward app that works in a very simple manner. We supply cafes etc. with a printed QR code which the customers scan on each visit, using the app. Upon completing ...
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Can someone get my home address if I click on a link to a IP logger?
So I was going through my email and accidentally clicked on a suspicious link. It was a quickmessage.io link, which I had no clue what it was. When I clicked on it, my anti-virus came up and blocked ...
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Should I block a user from using banking app if they fake the location?
I was wondering if this could be a security issue for banking application and if so, why? What are the risks if I allow it?
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Is there a way to fool google with wrong location information [closed]
Google maps tracks our mobile location accurately using multiple ways: gps, cellular network, nearby wifi networks etc. It knows the hotels, banks and other places I have been to. Recently, when I ...
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How can a major UK website detect usage of a UK VPN on an incognito tab outside the UK?
This applies to any country, but here's some context:
Website: BBC iPlayer (a major UK streaming website, registration mandatory)
Server: Linode, London data centre
VPN: SoftEther on HTTPS port 443
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Can location/owner of mobile phone be identified
Let's say someone uses GSM network mobile phone to pursue his/her online activities on social networking platforms. The mobile phone is Android and all online activities are done through a VPN tunnel (...
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Can a forensic exam find an image's geographic metadata after geotagging was disabled?
We recently did a lab in my computer forensics class where we analyzed images of a suspect's phone, and used the metadata of the photos found therein to show he was in the vicinity of where a crime ...
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How would the identity of a company be discovered through banner ads?
Our company has started researching using a new tech. We started seeing banner ads for a consulting company "with expertise in" this new tech.
The recently we had a call from someone representing ...
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Is IP geolocation threat intelligence?
If the suppliers of your business are all located in North America, but your supplier web portal suddenly receives a lot of traffic from elsewhere, you should investigate. Therefore, IP geolocation ...
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When it is possible to locate/trace SMS sender?
I have read this question (which is closed) and already answered.
Quoting the answer:
There is no location transmitted within a normal SMS message (unless
added by the author) so as the ...
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Can my employer track everything in my mobile even i disconnected my wifi connection?
Can my employer track everything in my mobile? I am always connected to wifi while working but disconnect it always after going home. We have an ID whenever we were connected to wifi. Also i ...
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How does DuckDuckGo know my native language even though I am using a VPN in a country with a different language?
I recently started using a VPN and I've felt more comfortable browsing the Internet. My VPN allows me to select another country through which my traffic is routed to make it appear I'm located in that ...
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Can I know who tried to login to my Google account?
I recevied a notification that someone tried to access my Google account and it was denied, so i quickly changed the password. Google tells me the IP number in the notification and a location. I ...
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Can my location be tracked trough WiFI ? [closed]
Let's say hypothetically that I'm sitting at home and have a big WiFi Antena that is catching the local Caffe Wifi about 500m from me. I'm using TOR Browser for my internet search and XMPP for my ...
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What threat model implies any benefit to drug dealers using candy bar dumb phones for business with iPhones for personal use?
I mean if law enforcement or other state actors are surveiling their comms, it makes sense to have it be anonymous, but I just saw a guy who was obviously a drug dealer in the underground with an ...
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Find IM user location via netstat?
I got sent an article today (http://hakerin.com/facebook-user-location-finder-noobs/). With the click-bait title "Facebook User location Finder" Of course I clicked it.
Going through the "article" ...
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How does Google know who I met and in what room?
Last week I took my wife to see her new doctor doctor who is independent and located in the same office at 7 other doctors. Today I noticed that the doctor's name was on the map not the office ...
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How is Google's Sidewalk Lab's Free Wifi Hotspot Tracking me?
Elaborating from this question : Bluetooth/WiFi Identity tracking in public spaces - How to discover?
Questions:
How are they tracking me :
From a hardware perspective
Is it a mac address that ...
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Location fixing through NFC Tag
I'm new to NFC technologies and I want to develop a smartphone app that reads a NFC tag and sends the location securely to web service. This NFC tag is in a special place and we MUST be sure that the ...
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When my location is turned on can someone track me? [closed]
When the location is turned on can someone track me without me sharing my location with them?
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If the IP address's GPS coordinates is far enough from me, could a hacker be on my line? [closed]
My current IP address is linked to a GPS location 40 km from my location. I found the same GPS coordinates using both iptrackeronline and maxmind. If this means that there is a hacker on my line, this ...
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Why Geo-block Sites Without Secure Information?
I am an American software developer living in Honduras. We run an orphanage in this country, and my job funds most of it. I frequently do business, making purchases or gathering information about ...
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Can Geolocation of an IP be guessed based on some pattern matching? [duplicate]
I was wondering about how some websites know the location of IP addresses we query them to resolve for it's location.
Then I remembered the IANA assigns IP addresses to different Regional Internet ...
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Someone detected my location on Omegle
I was in Omegle and was chatting with someone when he told me "wanna make a bet?" and I say sure why not.
He tells me he can identify my location and proceeds to put all my internet connection ...
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What are some ways to locate other mobile phones within a building? [closed]
I am currently working on a research project trying to locate people near a mobile device. Currently I have a mobile phone with monitor mode enabled and I am attempting to track other phones by ...
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Can a telephone call be traced back to my location?
Basically the title, can a simple telephone call be traced back to my location like seen in the common movies, and if so, what are the ways to prevent this from happening?
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Can employer see which state you are in if logged into their VPN?
If you connect to your employers VPN, can they tell from your IP address or the wifi you are connected to which state or location you are in?
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How do I do computer forensic from an IP address to the actual computer? [duplicate]
I want to genuinely trace and identify computers connecting to my server with malicious intend. I am quite new to networking world. That is trace malicious ip back to the actual computer.
I wanted ...
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Should I contact the manufacturer if their product allows access to other users' location information?
I recently purchased a satellite communicator that allows me to send a map of my location to friends and family while I'm hiking in the wilderness.
While testing out my product, I noticed that the ...
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How can you fake geolocation in Firefox?
Google and many other sites know my correct location. How can I fake my location without using a VPN, proxy, Tor or similar?
I went to about:config and looked for geo. What I think I have to modify ...
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Where does Google search take my geolocation from?
After a bit of googling, found that the gs_l parameter that gets automatically appended to my google queries is my real location encoded in some way. The thing is, there is no sign of me having it ...
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How to get user location using real IP [duplicate]
I recently heard this question:
Can some guys track u using your IP address (what if this guy has access to ISP)?
And I can't find an answer to this question.
Because, I think 99% of people who ...
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Track Mobile Device Within Premises [closed]
My brother is working as fresher in one IT organisation in network department. His company is building mobile applications so they have more than 100 mobile devices within premises and more than 500 ...
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GPS working and anonymity
Does gps make any log, which is store in there positioning system ?
Even if gps is off in our smart phone and we don't have any sim card in it and our internet is off too still is their any chance to ...
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Verifying user's location is not faked [duplicate]
We're trying to implement geofencing and it's fairly important that we're sure the user isn't using any location spoofing software or simply faking the request by not using our app.
We will be ...
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Cell phone privacy [closed]
I keep hearing about cell phone tracking, but I always wondered how common is it? Is it something that only 3 letter agencies can do or is it something pretty common?
I've seen those websites that ...
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How effective is disabling Firefox's geo.enabled setting for increasing anonymity?
When viewing the bottom of a Google Search page, you can see that Google shows more or less your precise location, determined by your IP. This is useful for Google Maps.
In about:config is a switch ...
