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A comment on Ask HN: Can you prevent me from hacking Facebook to check in from Siberia?.

Re:Ask HN: Can you prevent me from hacking Facebook to check... by jakeburtn on Friday May 17, 2013 @01:34PM (#5725686)
I guess the only thing to do would be to compare the GeoLocation API result with some other data like GeoIP[1] failing that you could look through the browser history - assuming that if you were in siberia you would have visited a siberian domain (by TLD) recently.

[1]http://briancray.com/posts/find-web-visitors-location-javasc...

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