Post #595483
2026-03-09 07:45 UTC
I think there is a line to be drawn between what is theoretically better and what is meaningfully useful.
It is realistically not useful information for an attacker to know what country you are from by observing your UTC offset. It’s simply much easier to guess this information by observing your other behaviours. For example, the text and time of your post is already leading me to guess UTC+5:30 as the time zone in question. But again, knowing what country you’re from is not really useful information most of the time, as even if my guess is correct, that narrows it down to a whopping one-eighth of the human population.
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@glint@mander.xyz 2026-03-09 13:12
Heh, I wish it was +5:30 It’s UTC +5:45, and my country’s the only one using it. That’s ~30 million people. My main fear is not being pinpointed as my personal identity, but the fact that that serves as a perfect fingerprint metric, rare enough to stick out. (felt safe enough to reveal, as i do not expect this account to be tied back to me personally)