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Netgear 'fixes' router by adding phone-home features that record your IP and MAC address

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: Similar technical data

@FuzzyWuzzys: That sort of hopeless guesswork is probably why I get geo-IP-ed to Bracknell. Perhaps you live in a country where there are such things as "local ISPs". I can't think of any in the UK.

But the real problem with your algorithm is that is uses existing geo-IP knowledge to locate the router, which makes the information that Netgear have collected utterly worthless to people who do geo-IP, which is what was being suggested.

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