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[Roger Clarke]

At 20:56 +0200 25/7/14, Martin Barry wrote:
>  ... I'd be curious what you get when you visit 
>https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate_my_ip

That inspired me to do one of my occasional checks.

Previously, I've usually been in a state forest some km E of the airport.

But my TPG-supplied IP-address now places me at about Bulls Head:
  https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-35.4171,+148.7769&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=60.158465,62.402344&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&ll=-35.40808,148.922424&spn=0.983862,0.975037&t=m&z=10

That's a car-park beside an unsealed road in the Brindabellas, on the 
way to the Mt Franklin and Mt Gingera walks, about 25km WSW of my 
actual location.  (That's as the crow flies.  It's >50km by road).

I'd like to think that all this derives from nat-sec-inspired 
obfuscation of the national mapping system, so that Soviet nucs don't 
rain down on the middle of Canberra.  But rational explanations are 
seldom right in Canberra even generally, let alone in nat-sec 
contexts.

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