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Companies need to stop treating IPs or groups of IPs like identifiers. When I'm in my office, I can't access yelp. They blocked that ip range for some reason,

Companies need to stop treating IPs or groups of IPs like identifiers. When I'm in my office, I can't access yelp. They blocked that ip range for some reason, maybe because of something we did. We block entire countries at work because we were getting a lot of DDOS from those countries and we don't do business their but it ends up blocking a lot of legit use cases and wasting a lot of time.

dvtrn 6y ago
I worked at a company once that decided to add an entire range of IP addresses to their firewall’s deny list. Seems an executive had their personal home network pwned, and an unknown figure told him it was from a certain part of the world. Said executive made enough noise and put enough pressure on the network engineers to get it done without question or delay or...most critically..a reviewed and authorized change control ticket that would have caught what was about to happen Following Monday help desk was underwater triaging tickets from the entire office full of team members we had just denied from the corporate network, and customers who now couldn’t use our product at all.
judge2020 6y ago
Your first mistake was using Yelp in any capacity[0-6]. Thankfully Apple is trying to drop Yelp by having their own review and photo system[7]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884515 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238576 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220988 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706307 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486468 (all the way back in 2009) 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452410 7: https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/26/apple-maps-reviews-inhouse/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/26/apple-maps-reviews-inhouse/

dvtrn 6y ago

I worked at a company once that decided to add an entire range of IP addresses to their firewall’s deny list. Seems an executive had their personal home network pwned, and an unknown figure told him it was from a certain part of the world. Said executive made enough noise and put enough pressure on the network engineers to get it done without question or delay or...most critically..a reviewed and authorized change control ticket that would have caught what was about to happen Following Monday help desk was underwater triaging tickets from the entire office full of team members we had just denied from the corporate network, and customers who now couldn’t use our product at all.

judge2020 6y ago

Your first mistake was using Yelp in any capacity[0-6]. Thankfully Apple is trying to drop Yelp by having their own review and photo system[7]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884515 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238576 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220988 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706307 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486468 (all the way back in 2009) 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452410 7: https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/26/apple-maps-reviews-inhouse/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/26/apple-maps-reviews-inhouse/