It's definitely interesting that your IP-based location can be discovered by more people than just the service you're directly connecting to thanks to #Cloudflare, but it just goes to show that information you don't protect can often be discovered in pretty novel ways.
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Cloudflare issue can leak chat app users' broad location
A security researcher made a tool that let them check which of Cloudflare's data centers had cached an image, which allowed them to figure out what city a Discord, Signal, or Twitter/X user might be in
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A security researcher made a tool that let them check which of Cloudflare's data centers had cached an image, which allowed them to figure out what city a Discord, Signal, or Twitter/X user might be in
🔗 www.404media.co/cloudflare-i...
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