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Comment by nickdothutton

4 months ago

4chan is going to love this.

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paranoidrobot  4 months ago

This is not a new idea, and I don't believe it will help the malicious actors of the world.

People have been doxxed/compromised in the past by opening links or visiting sites from an adversary who used source IP to geolocate someone.

I can't see it being more than a verification of existing GeoIP databases and possibly a way to detect some VPN use.

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