Deseret News | BYU student's creation lets you track your Internet connections

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BYU student's creation lets you track your Internet connections

John L Carter | 1:15 p.m. March 15, 2009

I'm pretty sure his last name is Ouimet, pronounced We=met.

Neotrace | 2:08 p.m. March 15, 2009

been using a program for years called neotrace to do just this. I wouldn't consider it very accurate for locating the physical location of an IP address. It is nice to follow the hops through the network but traceroute will do this also. Mad props for making it web based. It's in my bookmarks now.

Brock Argyle | 3:42 p.m. March 15, 2009

Yeah, it is Ouimet. The article switches in the middle, but it is Ouimet.

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l | 5:12 p.m. March 15, 2009

It looks cool, but is actually kind of weird, not directly tracking connections between any two computers, but tracking connections between Ouimet's server and whatever other computers you're looking at. It's the easy way of doing it without needing to install special software, but highly inaccurate and not very useful for anything. It looks pretty, and the media doesn't understand how technology like that works, hence the coverage.

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Jason Olson, Deseret News

Kirk Ouimet created a Web site, yougetsignal.com, that visually traces IP addresses to the user. It has been used by police to track down online predators.