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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by ravenstine on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:10PM (#23251836)
That's pretty interesting. So, effectively, a triangulation based on latency times?
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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by Disposition on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:07PM (#23253063)
Hate to be a pedant, but it's technically trilateration.
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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by stagas on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:27AM (#23255427)
I didn't know this term, thank you for being such a pedant :) knowing the right term makes it easier to find information on the subject.
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Re:Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal by Avamander on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:39PM (#23252140)
> So, effectively, a triangulation based on latency times?

Yes.

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