alt Hacker NewsI guess it can be useful for tracking fugitive political dissidents, terrorists, etc. If you can narrow their location down to 250 miles, it's already very useful information. And without raising any suspicions.
I guess it can be useful for tracking fugitive political dissidents, terrorists, etc. If you can narrow their location down to 250 miles, it's already very useful information. And without raising any suspicions.
It's not really narrowing it down to 250 miles; its narrowing it down to a circle whose radius is at least 250 miles or ~196,000mi^2.
My closest Cloudflare CDN is just listed as "DFW". The DFW metro area is about 8,700mi^2, and I imagine I could be even further than the "metro area" and still get the "DFW" Cloudflare datacenter.
In their little video animation, the area inside the overlap of those two circles encompasses several states. The edges of the two circles go from Washington to Florida and almost include Chicago. The target could have been in Denver or St Louis or Las Vegas or Phoenix or San Diego or San Francisco or Amarillo or El Paso.