The most straightforward explanation of Durham’s intentional verbiage of “in the vicinity of the WH” w/ regard to the so-called “yotaphone traffic” is Joffe & the boys were likely fusing GPS geolocation data from a cell network w/ their DNS trove.

Now you get to decide if you’re more concerned about the collection & sharing of that geolocation data or the potential that the traffic represents exfil from an adversary’s emplaced sensors.

And let’s be clear: understanding what “in the vicinity of” really equates to will show how much of a red herring this amounts to.