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These aren't just random profiles, they're security interested Hacker News browsers. And they might be correlatable with comments in this post.

IP gives you more than just location. If you own a website, and someone from an IP visits your website around the same time as this log, there's probably a good chance they're the same person. So you could then correlate a username on your website with a Facebook profile.

The whole point of potential attack is to correlate a username on the attacker's website with a Facebook profile.



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