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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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