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Re:If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might b... by SomeStupidPoint on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:26PM (#14089641)
It also might be on purpose -- if you have a signature, then unsigned things aren't you, right?

I suspect it was largely accidental, though. Heck, there's been private entities I know who have ended up with tells that pinned them to timezones.

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Re:If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might b... by Luc on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:58PM (#14089976)
Easy to do with e.g. postings to forums, including those about bitcoin...
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Re:If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might b... by SomeStupidPoint on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:29PM (#14090347)
I've generally given up trying to conceal anything above what city I'm in.

There are just too many information leaks that can be used to track people back to regions, and I honestly don't care if people know I'm one of millions of people.

(Whoops, there goes another -- there's only 53 US metros above 1mil people and 34 above 2mil.)

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