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Re: [tor-relays] TorFlow


On 11 Nov 2015, at 12:15, Kenneth Freeman <kencf0618@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On 11/10/2015 04:19 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:

On 11 Nov 2015, at 09:44, Kenneth Freeman <kencf0618@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What jumped out for me were the 109 relays (!) northeast of Wichita,
Kansas. At first I assumed Lawrence, it being a college town and all,
but it's Potwin, estimated population 441.

Any IP to location mapping is imperfect, which is why location-aware secure protocols are hard.

No kidding! I figured it was an artifact of some sort.

When I looked up the local servers of some big US companies, they were all listed as being on the US west coast, rather than the Australian east coast. That's a pretty big inaccuracy.

I've often wondered how these faux locations are actually generated,
which is an interesting study in and of itself. The map is not the
territory and all that.

The ones I saw seemed to be based on the location of the legal entity controlling the server or data center, not the location of the data center itself.

Tim

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