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doodlebugging01/21/20251 replyview on HN

>It gets more interesting when you think about the impact on groups. Sending an image to a group is enough for all devices associated with that group to be identifiable from CloudFlare's side,

Doesn't this open up the possibility to identify groups that have been infiltrated by spies or similar posers? If you use this method to kinda-sorta locate or identify all the users in your group and one or more of those users ends up being located in a region where you should have no active group members then you may have identified a mole in your network.

Just thinking out loud here since there's no one else home.


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gruez01/21/2025

>If you use this method to kinda-sorta locate or identify all the users in your group and one or more of those users ends up being located in a region where you should have no active group members then you may have identified a mole in your network.

...unless they happen to be using a VPN for geo-unblocking reasons or whatever.

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