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		tablespoon on Oct 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iOS allows DNS request to escape the VPN tunnel > I don't see any reason why Apple Pay would use IP geolocation like that when it's running on a device that has GPS. One reason is that GPS doesn't work well (or at all) indoors, through cell-tower geolocation should work well enough for that case.

thelopa on Oct 12, 2022 [–]

A compromised device can send a false location or the user may have disabled location. Geolocation has relatively predictable failures.

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