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IIRC, in one of the WWDC talks, Apple's advice is stop relying on IP address as a signal of the user's location. Either make use of the location APIs on the pla
by meepmorp 5y ago
IIRC, in one of the WWDC talks, Apple's advice is stop relying on IP address as a signal of the user's location. Either make use of the location APIs on the platform or work out something different.
- wyager 5y agoTrusting location APIs is also silly, as those can be spoofed easily. What Apple is really doing here is subverting the entire concept of geo-blocking services, which is great.
- cratermoon 5y agoMany APIs can be spoofed. If a system is trusting a third party service for security purposes, that needs to be subject to some close scrutiny. Using location as one signal of many is reasonable, and in some legal regimes, at least for now, required. Using location as the sole signal is foolish, and never was sufficiently reliable for anything but the most casual security check. See for example https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turned-a-random-kansas-f-1793856052 https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...
- adrianstoll 5y agoThis does not prevent geo-blocking, because the relay's IP is still in the same region as the user.
- jimmydorry 5y agoExcept when it isn’t like in the OP’s article. Also, when datacentres inevitably go down, traffic will be rerouted, potentially to other countries.