I should have stopped when they announced they were a highschool student.
They didn’t reveal the actual identity of anyone. They did use cloudflare to approximate a target’s location, and made it slightly fancier by forcing the client to make the request with a push notification.
Companies have used similar approaches for decades. Almost every web interaction with a marketer approximates your location and ties that together with demographics via browser fingerprinting to get a good idea of who you are.
I should have stopped when they announced they were a highschool student.
They didn’t reveal the actual identity of anyone. They did use cloudflare to approximate a target’s location, and made it slightly fancier by forcing the client to make the request with a push notification.
Companies have used similar approaches for decades. Almost every web interaction with a marketer approximates your location and ties that together with demographics via browser fingerprinting to get a good idea of who you are.