At 1:12 PM -0400 6/8/17, Ted Lemon wrote:
The way to prevent this behavior when in a foreign country is to
use a VPN; this should work just fine from the IETF network, if not
from the hotel network.
Indeed, VPNs solve the problem by changing where one appears to be to
the web site, which is why I said the problem happens "without a full
VPN."
Really, everything we're talking about in this thread is because of
the various hacks that have grown up to guess at various things such
as location, language, character set, etc. The hacks work well
enough enough of the time that people rely on them.
Because the hack works well enough enough of the time, it's common
for people to assume that it's reliable, but as we're discussing
here, it isn't. Interestingly, in the U.S., there is work ongoing to
develop a National Emergency Address Database (NEAD), which is
designed to reliably and authoritatively provide a specific location,
e.g., by having a venue owner specify the MAC addresses of Wi-Fi APs
within the venue, as well as other sources and inputs.
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