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Re:Show HN: Load this image from a peer rather than from a w... by chacham15 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:36PM (#5457818)
Its not just random IPs, it would be ips of people who use whatever service the website provides. If that website were to have a vulnerability, you now have immediate targets.
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Re:Show HN: Load this image from a peer rather than from a w... by rurounijones on Thursday March 28, 2013 @11:55PM (#5459170)
Would suck if you were, for example, a "web dissident" in China and visited an HTTPS site that uses this tech.

All the security forces would have to do is visit the site then log all the IPs to which they send their copies of the images to.

Using this they could also narrow it down to the exact page being used rather than the IP address

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