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Comment by lxgr

5 months ago

Wow, I knew there were residential proxies for sale (for bypassing geofenced VOD content etc.), but I didn't know that was a thing for mobile data yet.

Is it time to stop treating somebody's IP address as an authentication factor yet?

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singpolyma3  5 months ago

That time was always

  • lxgr  5 months ago

    You know that, I know that, but the only thing that matters is decision makers at big corporations also knowing it.

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