Please excuse my ignorance here, but how does one track a persons location by their IP? Any time I have tried to look up an IP, I get a really vague result. ie "Somewhere in this city". Is it possible to get very specific results?
IP locations are kept in databases that have many limitations. Some examples of the limitations I found here in France:
- at best your ISP links your IP with the DSLAM location or simply the city for the most lazy. Sometimes there are mistakes: one of my friend living in the north of France has his IP "geolocated" in the south of France...
- lots of big corporations only give the address of their headquarters
- IP location from 3G/4G network is completely wrong 90% of the time
It would be difficult to track a person with just their IP address, but used in conjunction with other information it could be useful. E.g. if you worked out the ISP someone was using, and then used some social engineering on the ISP's customer service rep to get a name or address.
