[tor-relays] TorFlow

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 11 Nov 2015, at 12:15, Kenneth Freeman <kencf0618 at riseup.net> wrote:
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> On 11/10/2015 04:19 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
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>>> On 11 Nov 2015, at 09:44, Kenneth Freeman <kencf0618 at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>> 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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