> You know that two computers are physically far apart if they respond to pings in the right way, as limited by the speed of light. This presupposes that there

> You know that two computers are physically far apart if they respond to pings in the right way, as limited by the speed of light. This presupposes that there are no other obstacles like DPI as you'd expect in a place like China or capacity issues due to a broken undersea cable causing traffic to be re-routed to alternate routes. Not really disagreeing with you, merely pointing out that "proof of location" isn't as easy to determine in the real world where packets are routinely routed through different jurisdictions.