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by hn_throwaway_99 1405 days ago
> Compromised sessions is not necessarily a concern, unless the attacker has physical access to the location, since systems can detect if the location changes. E.g. Ip address change prompts the user.

I don't think that's a valid approach anymore. FWIW I have coded these restrictions into auth tokens before (i.e. reject the auth token if it's from a new IP), but had to get rid of it because too many ISPs frequently change a user's IP address, especially mobile clients.