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I think that is about the same as the USA. Do you think zip codes wouldn’t work. I thought that it was the simplest mechanism. A city is an area and it is easy to tell how close to a zip code one is.
In France the zip code has the format XX-YYY XX is the départment , one of the two major administrative divisions in France. It is made of communes - "cities". It can be rather small like 75 - Paris, or of the size of half of Massachusetts (about 11000 km2). The YYY means that you are in this department but there is no distance relationship between the numbers. And then of course you can have a city in 78 a km away f…
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GPS could confirm that you are indeed where you claim you are. In the unlikely case you want to change your location for the Nth time.
But I, as the attacker, would just modify the value right? It's not that the device transmits signals into space and the satellite operator, a trusted third party, would relay to the server where the user was computed to be. Instead, it's the user self-reporting the computed value from GPS satellites' signals
The user is not self-reporting, the app is.
Again, just because something can't be 100% bulletproof it doesn't mean it needs to stay wide open.
Added myself for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Luxembourg (City) (lu-Luxembourg as this meet.hn encodes that country-city). Motivated to meet dmichulke, pvtmert and uselpa... And the others who may join.
But please consider adding a way to contact you to your "about" section.
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here you go https://xcancel.com/
Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.
The couple of instances floating around that still work are, to my knowledge, forks of the original Nitter that have been upgraded to work with a pool of manually created X accounts, which is a relatively expensive and fragile approach that most instances probably aren't up for taking.
[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...
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Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR (also Portland, the streets names sharing a lot of character's names), it was only after he placed it in Springfield that he realized Springfield could be anywhere. He apparently makes direct references to local landmarks and establishments, and certain characters are rumored to have been based off of locals.
>> Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR No he didn't. 742 SW Evergreen Terrace. Somewhere around here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=742%20sw%20evergr...
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But I, as the attacker, would just modify the value right? It's not that the device transmits signals into space and the satellite operator, a trusted third party, would relay to the server where the user was computed to be. Instead, it's the user self-reporting the computed value from GPS satellites' signals
If you decompiled the app, then yes, you could spoof GPS. Still, a well behaved backend would stop you in your tracks. The user is not self-reporting, the app is. Again, just because something can't be 100% bulletproof it doesn't mean it needs to stay wide open.
- the risk of somehow abusing self-reported city-level location data is very low
- the effort involved in bypassing the proposed security measure is so exceedingly little, anyone who is passingly motivated to abuse it will also simply do that
As someone who works in the digital risk business, I fully subscribe to managing risk and that (as you say) 100% security is usually not a realistic option. Weighing risks against benefits is key, though
I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…
I met my Zapier co-founder bryanh through HN 15 years ago when someone made a similar service to OP called "hacker newsers". We were the only two people in Missouri at the time which led to a meetup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520916