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 02:12 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah right. Try telling the space nutters that. They will just say "well there are things in Physics we don't understand yet" and go on with their plans for exploring the Universe from their Mom's basement.