A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information

Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by Firerouge on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:28PM (#17721067)

The point of the article is that you could essentially get the exact address house address from just the IP of a Comcast customer

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Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by trocadero on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:55PM (#17721168)

Right, and my point is that you essentially can't. For my address the best you could do is narrow it down to ~30 or so homes that share the same first digit as my address. For this to work you have to:

(1) Have the IP address return the right location

(2) Not have duplicate street names in that location

(3) Have a single digit address OR be the only home starting with that number

That's going to be a pretty rare combo. Probably less than 1%.

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Re:A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Pe... by meowface on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:09PM (#17738064)

They'll be able to narrow it down to 10-30 homes, but from there they can see who owns those homes, research those people on social media etc., and determine who their likely target is.

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