alt Hacker News> 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.
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> 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.
> 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.
While 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.