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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"How does this happen. You look at a profile and the distance away from you is 7-10 miles based on mobile phones and GPS. Then 25 minutes later they are 180 miles away using the same system.  "
they're a pilot omg  |
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"How does this happen. You look at a profile and the distance away from you is 7-10 miles based on mobile phones and GPS. Then 25 minutes later they are 180 miles away using the same system. they're a pilot omg "
Hhmmmm on a plane huh |
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For information - light speed is approx 186000 miles per second so in 25 minutes they would be (25x60) x 186000 miles away which would put them in France by my calculations or about 280 million miles away give or take….  |
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"For information - light speed is approx 186000 miles per second so in 25 minutes they would be (25x60) x 186000 miles away which would put them in France by my calculations or about 280 million miles away give or take…. "
Christ, continental drift is getting out of hand 
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"How does this happen. You look at a profile and the distance away from you is 7-10 miles based on mobile phones and GPS. Then 25 minutes later they are 180 miles away using the same system. "
Maybe it’s VPN. I often use VPN on fab especially if sending a message with an image . I know it uses SSL but I’m extra cautious |
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If you’re on Fab from a mobile, the location stuff works quite well. If you log on from a computer though, it’s picking up location info from all sorts of places - might be where you actually are, but equally it could pick up wherever your Internet provider is based, or a switching point somewhere along the way. |
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"How does this happen. You look at a profile and the distance away from you is 7-10 miles based on mobile phones and GPS. Then 25 minutes later they are 180 miles away using the same system.
Maybe it’s VPN. I often use VPN on fab especially if sending a message with an image . I know it uses SSL but I’m extra cautious"
Who's near uses the phone GPS not IP location 
It's more likely to be two people logging into the same account from different places. |
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Based on the mast they connect to. 
As you move around the country, your phone disconnects and reconnects from mast to mast, hence why you’ll see their distance increase over time.
Is also how the emergency services triangulate your position. |
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"How does this happen. You look at a profile and the distance away from you is 7-10 miles based on mobile phones and GPS. Then 25 minutes later they are 180 miles away using the same system.
Maybe it’s VPN. I often use VPN on fab especially if sending a message with an image . I know it uses SSL but I’m extra cautious
Who's near uses the phone GPS not IP location
It's more likely to be two people logging into the same account from different places."
Or they have a gps spoofing app on their phone. It is trivial to make your phone think it is anywhere in the world with one of those apps. |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"How does this happen. You look at a profile and the distance away from you is 7-10 miles based on mobile phones and GPS. Then 25 minutes later they are 180 miles away using the same system. they're a pilot omg
Hhmmmm on a plane huh"
could be couldn't they? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Phone gps isn’t hard to manipulate
Look in to Pokémon go stuff
Yes it’s a game
It’s probably the easiest way to find
How to manipulate the gps location off a phone
When certain Pokémon showed up in Central Park New York and could only be gotten there
New York Central Park
Regesterd
Over 7 million people in one spot
It’s when the devs twiged to
That people were manipulating they gps location
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Not sure how it works but my location stays at the postcode I put in here wherever I am. I’m often in another country too and it stays the same. Not sure if it’s to do with location services being off. |
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