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fun little incident this morning - with my wifi off, I logged into iCloud.com to change my primary AppleID e-mail address from an .edu to icloud.com address (ht
by karpodiem 9y ago
fun little incident this morning - with my wifi off, I logged into iCloud.com to change my primary AppleID e-mail address from an .edu to icloud.com address (https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/31/apple-id-third-party-email-address-update/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/31/apple-id-third-party-em...
Interesting location identification for the request origination - https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9rtg1igl73gf67/where.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9rtg1igl73gf67/where.png?dl=0
Now, I've seen 2FA requests a couple hundred miles off, but this is _way_ off. I'm in the suburbs of metropolitan Detroit.
For a lark, I googled 'NSA Texas' - https://goo.gl/maps/rb1AhG3EiE62 https://goo.gl/maps/rb1AhG3EiE62
Hello NSA! You might want to review the process on that one.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoOr in actuality, it’s just sloppy IP geolocation.
- astral303 9y agoIndeed, Occam's razor says poor IP geolocation. What are the chances that you are being monitored by NSA from Texas, or that the geolocation database is stale or wrong?
- frickinLasers 9y agoOut of curiosity, what are the chances this geolocation error also exists 170 miles away? I had the exact same thing happen a few weeks ago, from just east of Chicago.