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Here's an idea I've been playing with: you can buy your own AS and small IP block for a few thousand dollars. There are many data centers that will give you BGP
by Meekro 6y ago
Here's an idea I've been playing with: you can buy your own AS and small IP block for a few thousand dollars. There are many data centers that will give you BGP access to then announce that IP range and route it to your servers. The result will be that whois tools will not actually report which data center you're in, but will report "Uncensorable Inc" or whatever you choose to call yourself. No one will know which company to tweet at to try to have you deplatformed.
I'll be trying to do this to see if it works, if I succeed I'll post a story or two here with a demo and how-to instructions.
- geofft 6y agoWouldn't people just tweet at the companies offering you peering? Or put another way - if this works, why haven't spammers done it?
- Meekro 6y agoAs I understand it, hosts tend to have AUPs that restrict speech more than the first amendment does, but peering arrangements don't do the same-- correct me if I'm wrong, though! There are data centers that are popular with hax0rs because they don't validate source IP on outbound packets, thereby allowing people to run reflection DDoS attacks. You can visit hacker forums and get a list of these. There are still a ton of AS's in the world doing this, and no one is unpeering them even though they do huge damage to core infrastructure. On the other hand, if you try that on a well-policed data center like AWS, you'll be either blocked by automated tools or dropped as a customer (or both). That illustrates the difference between how customers are treated and how peers are. Spam is a bit different because email providers just block IPs and AS's that are major spammers. This is done with a simple firewall policy and has nothing to do with peering.
- rubatuga 6y agoWell, not terribly hard to find the two upstream ASNs and figure out where the datacentres are.