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10 Second Teleportation

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Re: 10 Second Teleportation

#3
Same thing happened with my work computer in the office network with a MITM HTTPS firewall. The IP address jumps between the coasts randomly confusing the Windows weather widget. Images failing to load on a lot of websites because the IP address change triggers something in their CDN. Everything is working fine when I'm WFHing so it has to be the office network.

Oh and this can also happen when a mobile user is jumping off their home wifi network to a internationally roaming data card. Why they would do that? Because data is cheaper this way, or they are actually tourists. So please do not block users just because they are doing this teleportation dance.

Re: 10 Second Teleportation

#4
I'm missing something

> strange devices show up for some of our customers' users

> how did it load these pages which were often behind an authwall without ever logging in or having auth cookies?

Either

- The customer has screwed up user auth big time and some X knows that.... lets go with no

- OP's data is wrong or they are reading it wrong

- They are explaining it badly.

Re: 10 Second Teleportation

#7
I wonder if this could be iCloud Private Relay? It appears that it's effectively a VPN with some redirection layers that change often, though I don't know the exact details.

Re: 10 Second Teleportation

#9
post #6

Unrelated to the article directly, it's kinda neat that the site's text selection highlight color is randomized on every mousedown.

I'm ashamed to admit that I spent more time highlighting random snippets of text than I did reading the article.
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