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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    I think they should have been required to do so.

    Did you miss the part where our government can’t even pass a budget, but you’re expecting them to pass laws like this?

    Also, IP spoofing exists and is relatively easy.

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      10 months ago

      You can’t spoof your IP address because of the TCP handshake. You could proxy your traffic to appear from coming from a different IP address than from the computers making the requests. This would still be identified as suspicious because the proxy IP address would differ from an IP address a user had logged in from before.

      Even if the “hackers” knew every user’s IP address, they would not be able to establish a connection with it appearing from an IP address that didn’t really initiate the traffic.