• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m surprised no place uses IP addresses anymore to authenticate (I was around when Postopia did or whatever that candy themed game place was). Many IP-ban when it comes to identifying rulebreakers, you’d think they’d IP-authenticate too.

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      1 year ago

      Carrier grade NAT. For instance, on our local mobile phone network, thousands of handsets will have the same public IP address.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      All major services do risk based authentication these days. I’m fairly certain network address factors into the risk calculations.