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by MalcolmDiggs 4314 days ago
To be fair, all you know re: China is that an IP address near Shanghai was somehow involved (possibly as an innocent/unsuspecting member of a botnet, possibly as a malicious attacker, possibly as a decoy to throw people off the scent, possibly as a single node in an onion router, who knows).

I think it's a stretch to title this "What the Chinese deploy..." No need to go there.
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Artemis2 4313 days ago
I think we can go as far as saying that the IP addresses' geolocation data are irrelevant. On top of what you mentioned, a lot of companies are already using IP addresses where they shouldn't be, because of the limited quantities of IPv4 addresses.
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Riyadh 4313 days ago
You're right about that, Malcolm. Then again that was just one of several IP addresses tracking to China.

Nevertheless I should have replaced "Chinese" with "hackers".

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