Think you can go online and visit websites and post to social networking spaces anonymously? Think again.
Most websites collect Internet protocol (IP) address information, which is unique to each computer on a network. A fairly recent feature of IP-address look-ups involves the layering of the geospatial aspect — the actual location of the computer user.
The following is a screenshot of the geolocation of a K-State computer and its origins, as verified by the free www.hostip.info (“host IP”) site.
