How much traffic do I get from North Korea anyway?

&gt; Or to sell VPN Services?<p>That seems to be a major aspect. There are hundreds of VPN services. They compete on many dimensions, such as speed, security, not retaining any logs, and the number of server locations. And some of them have insane numbers of server locations.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;ve been look it this issue for a while, using ping services (such as asm.ca.com, maplatency.com and ping.pe). For HMA and VyprVPN, only about half of the servers seem to be located where claimed. And HMA claims to have one in North Korea ;)<p>Some

I really have no idea what any of that means, but it sounds interesting and I want to understand it. Where do I start?

In other news, ip based geolocation is not realiable and just guesswork.

This is a bit beyond my knowledge of TCP&#x2F;IP, however, does this support Putin&#x27;s assertion that hackers can make an attack appear to come from Russia when they could be based somewhere else? How much work do you have to do to make it that your IP address is from somewhere credibly in some other country?

This is mostly unrelated, but is the AARNet peering with China Telecom in this article meant to be legit or fake? I think it&#x27;s meant to be legit, but I can&#x27;t get past AARNet misspelling their own name - &quot;Reasearch&quot; (sic).