alt Hacker NewsI think it's still useful. Going from "we don't know where Osama bin Laden is at all" to "he's somewhere in Pakistan".
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nkohari • 01/21/2025
This assumes that Osama bin Laden has poor enough opsec that he's using (eg.) Discord without a proxy. State actors have much more sophisticated techniques available.
(It's still an interesting vector, though! But it's true that the headline and writeup are a bit sensationalized.)
If only we knew OBL's Discord handle then we would have known he was about where we figured he was all along...
And then this whole thing gets thrown off if one uses a VPN with an endpoint somewhere other than where you are. Click a button, suddenly my datacenter is AMS. Click it again, suddenly its OTP...