How To Defeat VPN Location-Spoofing By Mapping Network Delays (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:46AM from the tricky-echoes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: An interesting paper from a PhD student in Ontario outlines a system which in initial tests has proved 97% effective at unmasking geo-spoofing VPN users. The Client Presence Verification (CPV) system presented in the paper utilises analysis of delays in network packets in order to determine the user's location, disregarding the IP address geolocation information which currently underpins the efforts of content providers such as Netflix to prevent VPN users accessing content which is not licensed in their country. The detection system was tested at global network laboratory PlanetLab using 80 network nodes based in the U.S. and Canada.

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Re:Seems trivial to mask by 110010001000 · 2016-02-16 02:28 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't live in my Mom's basement. I live in my Mom's Au Pair suite!
Re:Seems trivial to mask by joshuao3 · 2016-02-16 02:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Actually I think you are missing a completely different point. You don't have to speed up connections to match the speed of non-vpn traffic, you just have to slow everything down so that you can't be sure which is VPN and which is normal.

So... Comcast really had our best interests in mind after all?

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