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Two exit nodes near Washington DC. The NSA's headquarters are within the error tolerance of GeoIP. Coincidence?!
by bcherry 14y ago
Two exit nodes near Washington DC. The NSA's headquarters are within the error tolerance of GeoIP. Coincidence?!
- snowwrestler 14y agoThe map puts them in Ashburn, VA, which makes sense as there are massive commercial data centers there. If you have a server or VPS whose location is "east," there's a good chance that it is in an Ashburn data center.
- chimeracoder 14y agoZooming in and clicking on the arrows: > IP: Location: Netblock: AS Name: ISP: Reverse DNS: 50.16.161.238 Ashburn, United States 50.16.0.0/16 AMAZON-AES AMAZON.COM INC. ec2-50-16-161-238.compute-1.amazonaws.com So, not a coincidence, but also not suspicious - it's just Amazon's data center.