Comment on FBI admits buying Americans' location data and says it won't stop

• org@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do you also always use a VPN? Your IP gives you away.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe they do. Would that be so surprising?

    I blanket my whole network in a VPN, it rotates between servers every so often, and via NetBird which I self-host, all my devices access the internet via my home network, even when I’m not at home.

    It’s not hard to set up.

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    • org@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s why I asked. Maybe they don’t.

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  • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s true for mobile IPs since they are shared.

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    • org@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Every layer of abstraction is important.

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      • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, those are not “layer of abstraction” and they do not have equal importances, claiming otherwise is counter-productive. Each data does not reveal the same quantity of information and their hierarchy depends on your threat model.

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• tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can’t spoof what cell tower you’re connected to.

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