Chatroulette just got a little less anonymous. But actually, it never was.
Chatroulette Map is a new web site that uses the IP addresses of Chatroulette users to plot their locations to a map.
A quick visit to the site shows what appears to be an accurate cross-section of the video chat service’s users at any given time. There are people goofing off, starring into space, and liberal amounts of male genitalia–all plotted on a world map, down to the city block.
But don’t believe everything you see.
Because some Chatroulette users mask their IP addresses, thus concealing their exact locations, it’s possible that some of the photos on Chatroulette Map are not geotagged to the locations where they originated.
In the age of social networking, Chatroulette stood out for its lack of user profiles and it’s single-minded approach to randomly connecting users across the globe. But Chatroulette Map proves that just because there’s no profile, that doesn’t mean users are anonymous.
A person responding to the site’s email address told The Huffington Post that Chatroulette Map’s main goal is to “dissuade” people of the notion that Chatroulette offers total anonymity and security.
http://www.chatroulettemap.com/
