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Why is knowing what peer you're connecting to on a P2P network an issue?

• dboreham 3y ago
  Place call to terrorist Telegram...GBU-31 comes down his stovepipe.
• Operyl 3y ago
  It isn’t as long as the peer is aware it happens, because otherwise Telegram isn’t P2P it’s centralized for messaging.
• mianos 3y ago
  Because if you have the peer ip (which WebRTC is sending the audio packets), you can do an IP to geo-reference and maybe get an idea if where the peer is, kinda, sorta.
  • c7DJTLrn 3y ago
    Meh, with NAT and CGNAT you're only going to get a rough idea. Lot of people using VPNs now too.
• Thorrez 3y ago
  There's the classic: face an opponent in a ranked match in an online game, find the opponent's voice chat account through some search, get the opponent's IP, DDoS the opponent offline using a booter service, win the match. Or the other classic: DDoS the Twitch streamer. My family's home internet was DDoSed offline for a short bit by someone using a Skype resolver and (I assume) a booter service trying to extort a Roblox item from me.