> IP really is, just which poor saps router you are on, and, even then,
> unless you got the addresses of every single person paying for internet
> access, and somehow tracked the specific router IP, to every single one
> of those illegally obtained addresses.... lol

Google probably has such a database. If I turn on wifi on my phone, even 
without connecting to any access point, then it suddenly knows which 
great accuracy where I am (far better than using phone signal 
triangulation alone). I imagine it gathers this data from people who 
have GPS turned on at the same time as wifi and then cross-references 
the two. Now it wouldn't be impossible for Google to also store the IP 
address (and MAC?) of the internet-side of the access point if you are 
connected to it.

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