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...And then you start flagging businesses, ISPs, even entire countries as fraudulent. The number of NATs there are make that sort of correlation... difficult.
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
...And then you start flagging businesses, ISPs, even entire countries as fraudulent.
The number of NATs there are make that sort of correlation... difficult.
For that matter, there are people that use UA "spoofing" for non-nefarious purposes. Me, for one.
- x0x0 12y agoum, no you don't, and yes i've done something similar before While I'm sure there are valid reasons for ua spoofing, I'd bet it's a great signal for fraud.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoSpeaking as someone who's spent a lot of time in China... flagging entire countries as fraudulent isn't the end of some ridiculous slippery slope -- it's a thriving practice today. I have to hide my IP address to interact with the internet in almost any interesting way.
- x0x0 12y agoyeah, for a while I blackholed china and india with ipfw. Hacking attempts against my server fell like a rock. I felt a tiny bit bad, but if these countries / isps can't police their subscribers, what do they expect. Eventually I got rid of wordpress/php and just use nginx to serve static files so I felt secure enough to drop the firewall rules.
- paulhauggis 12y agoVietnam is pretty bad too. I spent a month in Vietnam and I was blocked from most forums. I had to use a USA-based vpn.
- bruceboughton 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:82.148.97.69/header http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:82.148.97.69/header >> This IP address [82.148.97.69] is registered to Qtel. It is the IP address for many people in Qatar, if not the entire country.