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Maybe they were using a VPN proxy?
by pdq 6y ago
Maybe they were using a VPN proxy?
- ipnon 6y agoThey were using a VPN that was exiting in New York City and had never exited from Romania.
- ciabattabread 6y agoWait, why were they using a vpn? Where were they physically at the time?
- jandrese 6y agoAre you sure the exit point was in NYC? VPN providers don't always put their servers in the same country that their IP claims to be from. While I agree that it's unlikely that they would serve NY customers from Romania, you will definitely see weird results from Geolocation services when going through some VPN providers.
- Guzba 6y agoIt does seem somewhat disingenuous to not mention the VPN usage in your first comment. Makes reasonable people wonder what other details you're leaving out, even if there are none.
- ipnon 6y agoI failed to make it clear by just mentioning spoofing in general, my apologies.
- lonelappde 6y agoHow did NYS figure out "Romania" (even if wrongly) and communicate that to your friend? That's a bizarre capability for a system that is as incompetent as has been seen.
- rbanffy 6y agoBrowsers send tons of information to all sorts of in-page components. If the attacker is incompetent, it's not that difficult to narrow down their location. I wonder if CDNs can be used as "standard candles" for in-page scripts to measure latencies to multiple known network locations and infer a position from there across multiple sessions with different exit points. How many exit-point/latency pairs would I need to figure out the actual origin of a request?