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Re:Proof of location for online polls by frotty on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:21PM (#42718649)
This feels grossly incomplete, and not a barrier to an attack of even remedial sophistication. ie, low latency from any given machine doesn't have any relationship to external controlling connections to the machine.

I also don't see anything addressing the "1 external IP for n number of people" being addressed.

It's also a bit bizarre to have multiple references to "the speed of light" when this wouldn't work for someone remote desktopping in

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Re:Proof of location for online polls by c-riq on Thursday January 16, 2025 @07:03AM (#42724183)
To get a hard to manipulate, representative sample of popular opinion it's not necessary to include everyone in the results. Only if the sub-population sharing IP's is large enough and has systematically different opinions than the people who don't share an IP, then this method would skew the results in a certain direction and may not be useful for certain polls in those regions. But it may also be possible to adjust the results, if it is known which IP's are shared and which are not.
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