Comments | rigel: LJ listing poster city/country in all instances of IP logging, including retroactively.

rigel

LJ listing poster city/country in all instances of IP logging, including retroactively.

Jun 10, 2011 11:50

(Signal boosting.)Seems one of the updates LiveJournal recently included is a list of your city and country in any post/comment/community that has IP logging turned on . . . including all retroactive submissions to LiveJournal ( Read more... )

meh, self, wtf, tech

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akiko June 10 2011, 17:04:06 UTC

Doesn't that depend on where the router is located? If you're in a town of the right size to have its own server farm, it'll put you in it. If your ISP's closest router is in the next big city, then yeah, it'll be harder to pinpoint.

My house has a router, which makes it tricker to find my IP (since checking my computer tells me it's 192.168.0.7), so I can't try it and find out.
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm puts me in the next biggest city (~30 miles away), which is likely where my ISP hosts its routers.

salda007 June 10 2011, 20:34:28 UTC

Heh, now I'm curious. How close does my company get to your place?

akiko June 10 2011, 23:12:24 UTC

It gets me closer, but still about 15 miles off (in a different direction but at least in the same county).

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akiko June 10 2011, 16:57:40 UTC

They heard the outrage and are in the process of rolling it back. It's all crossed out now on the releases page.

juldea June 10 2011, 17:44:30 UTC

Yeah. "[Edit] Message received! We're in the process of removing this change right now."

Yay!

twilighttremolo June 11 2011, 01:25:50 UTC

totally off topic, but I don't think I've seen that userpic of yours before, and I must say I like it (it's cute in a wow-those-glasses-are-something-else sort of way).