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Can police trace your location if u have a laptop and if so, how can you stop the police from tracing them?

Hey. Let's say you own your own laptop to a cafe, and you decided to play Fallout 3 on it or look up the weather on google. If you do so, could police track your exact location at that cafe? If so, is there any way to prevent them from tracking your location? I am planning on running away from home for a week to do something. That is why I need to find a way to prevent police from tracking my location.

Public Comments

1. They would be able to track the data to the cafe but once there it would be more difficult to place it to an individual user, especially if not there daily.
2. They can pinpoint your wireless access point via IP, but that's about it... Unless you have GPS or LoJack4Laptops installed.
3. If all your doing (and I highly doubt you are as you asked this question) is playing fallout 3 and checking the weather then why would the police even consider tracing you?
4. Yes.turn off your notebook.they can locate you through your notebooks' NIC card through its MAC address.
5. Yes, but not necessarily with a click of their fingers, they have to request IP information from ISP's as part of an investigation. It's what enables them to track down paedophiles and others that access child porn, for example. Why are you worried about police knowing if you looked at the weather? ... are you really up to something criminal that you want to try and hide?
6. It would be possibly, but it isn't like TV shows you see. They'd need to request information from the ISP, etc. and by the time they got it all together you'd be long gone. Running away sounds quite stupid and it'll probably end up a disaster, even for a week.
7. The laptop won't tip them off, the heavily dressed kid who looks nervous will tip them off.
8. looks like somebodys surfin the CP mebe. WELLLL. get a proxy, then stack it over and over, stack proxies over like 20 times. 9/10 times they wont track a kid playing fallout if hes run away. its just not efficient to track like that.