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How accurate can IP Geolocation get?

deep on April 12, 2021

Since I started working at an IP geolocation startup company, I have come to realise just how misunderstood IP geolocation technology is. In my pre...
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Vincent Milum Jr

I'm going to tell you the absolute scariest thing about GeoIP looking. The public databases are intentionally low quality. While not true of EVERY IP address, there are ranges (very large ranges, like /16s) where virtually every address can be identified to within under 100ft. Yes, that accurate. Yes, I know this, because I was the one that discovered an exploit in a particular ISP's handling of information and published the finding some years ago on this topic. I wont repeat it now, because of how dangerous that information is, but these types of highly accurate databases do indeed exist.

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deep

Thanks for sharing Vincent.