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> it's possible for an attacker to run a cache geolocation attack to find out which local datacenter they're near--similar to how law enforcement track mobile d
by yapyap 2y ago
> it's possible for an attacker to run a cache geolocation attack to find out which local datacenter they're near--similar to how law enforcement track mobile devices through cell phone towers.
very much disagree on this, they track mobile devices through your connection strength to multiple cellular towers while this attack proves which singular datacenter the victim is nearest.
Don’t get me wrong the write up is really interesting but it does feel like the author is a bit of a sensationalist.
- some_furry 2y ago> Don’t get me wrong the write up is really interesting but it does feel like the author is a bit of a sensationalist. They claim to be 15 years old. Cut them some slack.
- r4victor 2y agoTheir twitter says > Joined November 2017 so likely a bit older :)
- some_furry 2y agoAh, that's true. They even have HackerOne activity from 8 years ago: https://hackerone.com/daniel/hacktivity?type=user https://hackerone.com/daniel/hacktivity?type=user So either they lied about their age then in order to join social media and they're some sort of child prodigy... or they're lying now.
- xnorswap 2y agoOr that hackerone account has been traded.
- hackermondev 2y agothat's a hackerone bug, that 8-year-old report is not mine :)
- spzb 2y agoIt's clearly a different username on the 8 year old report.
- compootr 2y agoH1 activity at 8 is pretty crazy but yeah, I never put real information unless it's financial/stuff I care about Benjamin Dover, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, born in 1999 ;)
- creaturemachine 2y agoIt's not unfathomable for a precocious 8yr old to register for an account, with or without parental guidance.
- dare944 2y ago"bit of a sensationalist" is reasonable feedback; no slack needed. After all, this is how they learn.
- some_furry 2y agoIt would probably be better for such learning to occur in a place that doesn't create immutable records of judgments from one's peers; i.e. Hacker News comments.
- j3s 2y agopeople learn when they’re given kind, direct, actionable feedback from people they trust - not when they’re called sensationalists by random critics on the internet. what have you made lately?
- gruez 2y ago>people learn when they’re given kind, direct, actionable feedback from people they trust - not when they’re called sensationalists by random critics on the internet. So what are we supposed to do? Dox him, find who his friends are, and use them to backchannel feedback? I think the "sensationalist" critique is direct and actionable - just don't do it.
- kelnos 2y agoI think "this writing is sensationalist" is constructive, actionable feedback. And I think expecting that all criticism must come from people the target of it knows and trusts is a bit much. > what have you made lately? Plenty of stuff. But that's irrelevant. People are free to give feedback regardless of what they've been working on.
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- redcobra762 2y agoNo.
- vel0city 2y ago> through cell phone towers Extremely sensationalist. A cell tower might have a range of a few miles, max. This is giving ranges of 250+mi.
- mapcars 2y agoWhile the detection area of the cloudflare attack is bigger I think the main problem here is that its much easier to get access to it than to cellphone towers.
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