c-riq

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by c-riq 2y ago
I just released a demo here https://ip-vote.com/ui/geolocation
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by c-riq 2y ago
For slow connections you can still make use Geo IP data (such as maxmind.com) to infer location, which should be quite reliable in most cases. You just cannot meet the stricter hardware location proof criteria based on latency. You may stil
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by c-riq 2y ago
To get a hard to manipulate, representative sample of popular opinion it's not necessary to include everyone in the results. Only if the sub-population sharing IP's is large enough and has systematically different opinions than t
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by c-riq 2y ago
The idea is to make things like petitions or demonstrations easier on a global scale and to also make voting data accessible for independent analysis, where further manipulation attempts can be identified and excluded. My guess is that it&#
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by c-riq 2y ago
> Is it possible to ensure that the data is not manipulated? I don't think one can place much trust in phones not being tampered with as they are frequently jailbroken. So you could supply fake GPS antenna data to the software or I
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by c-riq 2y ago
> Why is clock skew being used here at all? You're right, it's not actually necessary to use the client clock at all. It was easier to implement it that way initially and I kept it in the description and didn't think about
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by c-riq 2y ago
I tested it from my home and got a radius of about 200 km. But would be nice to get some additional validation. In any case it's not super precise but it adds more friction to manipulation and in conjunction with IP based geolocation a
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by c-riq 2y ago
The goal is to easily get a representative and un-manipulated sample of popular opinion. To achieve that, it might be ok to discriminate against certain users who use connections which cannot prove their location, as long as it's not h
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by c-riq 2y ago
That is true, the location proof is only for the hardware whose IP is used for submitting the vote request. However if remote desktop provider / cloud provider / VPN / Tor IPs are already blocked by the voting platform. Then
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Proof of location for online polls(ip-vote.com)
111 points by c-riq 2y ago|86 comments