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AT&T cellular IP reveals iPhone users' location?

13 pointsby johannchiangover 15 years ago

3 comments

johannchiangover 15 years ago
As I understand, iPhones get NAT IP (10.x.x.x) in AT&#38;T 3G networks, and outgoing IP shows the gateway location (at least some located in Los Angeles).<p>From the article, the idea is interesting. But does it mean that it is possible for Stalqer to collect enough data to map AT&#38;T NAT IP to 3G cell ID for location? I though AT&#38;T would randomly assign NAT IP for users' privacy.
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thereover 15 years ago
i have to say, using a pop3 account on the iphone to do background pushing of location information is pretty clever.
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elbacover 15 years ago
The accuracy of ip address geolocation in cellular networks is a waste of time. Best case you get a fix in the same state. If your on Wifi, that's another story, but again best case is metro area perhaps. This isn't really useful.