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Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

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Re: Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

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And here I was, still thinking Linux was "an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War" .

I think you've confused it with Lunix.

Or was Lunix confused with Linux? All satire anyhow.

Re: Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

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From Apple's statement[0]: > The first assigns the user an anonymous IP address that maps to their region but not their actual location. The second decrypts the web address they want to visit and forwards them to their destination. This separation of information protects the user’s privacy because no single entity can identify both who a user is and which sites they visit. Apple is not saying nobody can deanonymize y…

That makes me wonder whether an analysis could be done over a long period of time to determine where in the region the user isn't, and thereby narrow down where the user is.

They might just use randomization, which is only statistically not where the user is. It’s the intuitive approach, and easy.

Re: Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”

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Yes but how?

By paying them for the services utilized. You think Cloudflare and Akamai are doing it for free? Really?

No, I do not. You didn't read my original comment, I asked if apple selecting them and are they paying them.
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