Proof of location for online polls

Re:Proof of location for online polls by KaoruAoiShiho on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:16PM (#42703984)

Fantastic, solves the issue of bots from foreign adversaries. Everyone complaining doesn't seem to get it, it doesn't need to solve all usecases, but solving this one usecase is great.

Conversely, can this be used to show that someone is NOT a chinese/russian bot? I've had enough with people accusing me lol.

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Re:Proof of location for online polls by kvdveer on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:03PM (#42704527)

Yesterday I fought off someone/something doing Chinese language crypto-blogspam on my website. Ip-addresses were all unique (mixed ipv4&ipv6), but all were 'located' within 100km of my server in central Europe.

If crypto-scammers can bypass geo-restrictions for blogspam, I'm confident that state-level actors can do that even better for geopolitics.

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Re:Proof of location for online polls by KaoruAoiShiho on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:38PM (#42715123)

Did you read the article? It's not about using IP addresses...

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Re:Proof of location for online polls by frotty on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:46PM (#42718892)

right - it's about using latency to the requester.

...which is what fails via 100 methods. I personally can't believe this is omitting addressing the things that would basically ruin this.

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