[tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

Alec Muffett alec.muffett at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 12:35:20 UTC 2017


On 20 Jun 2017 1:24 pm, "Paul Syverson" <paul.syverson at nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:22:19AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote:
> On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote:
> >In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, geolocated
to
> >London. I can't imagine why.
>
> How can a .onion geolocate anywhere?  Arent they supposed to be entirely
in
> cyberspace and hidden?
>

You are assuming a hidden (double) onion service.
Facebook uses a single onion service


Or, y'know, it could just be guessing.

-a


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