alt Hacker NewsI would guess some are just jealous of his age, but some do find the claim of de anonymizing to simply be overblown given it doesn't tell you nearly enough to find anyone except in very niche cases. This "attack" is easily defeated with a VPN or living in any major city.
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Interesting you touched on his age. I got extremely curious, why did the OP did such a flex?(assumming they are telling the truth). The first sentence is such a weird brag that it felt suspicious. The report is highly technical and extremely well written. We're either dealing with a pure genious or a fraud. But why would a genious flex? Doesn't make sense.
Someone on GitHub called him out for making a Twitter account in 2017, since he'd have to be 8 years old at the time... I don't see what's so unbelievable about an 8yo making a Twitter account.
It's common in our community to be jealous of youth, especially youth with genius, but I believe the github user in TFA is lying. Something about it is off. It also happens in posts here on HN, though.
I think after being exposed to so much internet, you realize how many are simply living a fantasy. In me it provokes a sense of disgust, I see it as part of a broader groomer problem on the internet, but this is a distantly minority take.
You don't need to live in a major city. Cloudflare is never going to set up a caching proxy for a hamlet in the desert; you'll always be part of a huge group that a given caching proxy serves. The attacker can be happy if they can narrow the recipient's location down as much as to a single country