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Old April 21st, 2006, 15:24   #26
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Originally Posted by TrinidadGT20
What I want to know is how that website got the area I lived in correct? I always try to be careful with security on my PC/Mac and this is bugging me how this website knew my approximate location...
It's through your ip address.

Anyone can roughly pin point the are you live in through your IP address....
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Old April 22nd, 2006, 00:19   #27
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Just read this on Yahoo news, here it explains the whole truth. You gotta have extra money and time to pull this off. F...ing idiots:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/...force_one_hoax
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