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Comment by jawiggins

> Latency-based geolocation can help protect poll integrity by:

> Detecting when poll responses originate from outside the intended geographic region > Identifying attempts to manipulate polls through elevated VPN/proxy usage

Unless the user also needs to complete a reaction-time test, couldn't this be defeated by using a remote desktop connection to a machine that is physically located in the other geography?

It just shifts which functions need to run on the proxy, from network routing to the browser itself.

parent jawiggins 1 year ago

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