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gruez01/21/20251 replyview on HN

>Often people will post photos or have profile pictures.

>Say you have a photo taken at a random mcdonalds. That'd be 36'000 locations. Imagine cloudflare location and timezone help you narrow it down to new mexico. That's 80 locations. Small enough that you can look at every single one using street view and check where the photo actually was taken.

Sounds like the bigger opsec failure is posting the pictures, and the leaking the cloudflare POP only makes the search slightly easier.


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darkwater01/21/2025

> Sounds like the bigger opsec failure is posting the pictures, and the leaking the cloudflare POP only makes the search slightly easier.

I would not define 3 orders of magnitude as "slightly easier".