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Isn’t blocking regions just going to block the legitimate traffic, and push determined adversaries to use proxies?

• oblio 3y ago
  > Isn’t blocking regions just going to block the legitimate traffic I imagine blocking North Korea, Iran, etc will probably impact 0.5% of traffic and 0.001% of revenue for most sites. > and push determined adversaries to use proxies? That might mean you're left with 10% of the previous attackers so it could be worth it.
  • redcobra762 3y ago
    Is it? Which of these "attackers" are you most concerned with? I hesitate to even call them "attackers." They're jiggling your front door knob, at worst.
    • evantbyrne 3y ago
      This is actually a decent analogy because a person sneaking around the neighborhood trying to open doors should be considered a threat. Nothing good happens when someone like that gets inside.
      • redcobra762 3y ago
        Eh, yeah, but at the same time, can you jiggle doorknobs from halfway around the world, and is it so overwhelmingly common that within minutes of every door being built, dozens of people come by just to jiggle the knob? It's just so unbelievably common and so frequently harmless that it's hard to take all that seriously. But you're right, it is a threat, I won't deny that.
  • rvba 3y ago
    Can you even sell stuff to North Korea or Iran? Arent they on some embargo? A friend told me that someone in his very big company sold some random stuff to North Korea and now 1) they have obligatory training not to sell there 2) they have to go through obligatory training on non proliferation of nuclear weapons