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If you wanted to send spam, or run an attack, you’d want to run your traffico via tor or a vpn to hide your home or office IP. Not sure why iCloud relay would be a problem.
isn't icloud relay just a vpn?
I was just assuming that paying iCloud users might be less likely to launch bot attacks. But on reflection I guess that is just bias.
For me it says “error, not connected to internet”. Or just doesn’t run.
Why are "tor", "vpn", "iCloud relay", and "datacenter" considered threats?
Datacenter is not necessarily a "threat", but if a datacenter is trying to post to your website comment form, it's certainly posting some kind of spam or SQL injection attempt, and it's not a message from a legitimate customer. (Datacenter is actually a highly effective flag for detecting spam.)
Is this ipinfo [0] repackaging their product? [0] https://ipinfo.io/
no. Source: I work for IPinfo. We don't do "IP Reputation Score". We provide the attributes/insights related to an IP address, the user makes the decision of how to use that information.
I don’t understand what this is or what the reputation really is. The site talks about threat intelligence and other marketing phrases. I hope I didn’t just give my IP to the site to just add to their database to show to their investors or worse data mine me somehow.
Blocklists based threat detection is however limited since they cannot contain every possible bad IP which leads to a lot of false negatives.
To fix this we created an IP Reputation scoring model [1] and currently provide 4 scores.
- Trust Score - VPN Score - Proxy Score - Threat Score
The Trust Score simply aggregates the other 3 scores and is a value from 0 - 100, with 100 being a very high reputation IP address.
[0] https://docs.ipdata.co/docs/ip-reputation-scores [1] https://docs.ipdata.co/docs/ip-reputation-scores
For me it says “error, not connected to internet”. Or just doesn’t run.
Why are "tor", "vpn", "iCloud relay", and "datacenter" considered threats?
Humph. My home IP address which is shared by thousands of random people behind two layers of NAT, in Brazil, gets a score of "63, low risk". My mail server, on Linode in the US, which has had the same IP# for about 20 years and sends mail to GMail and Microsoft without problems (and only from a small group of people who never send spam) gets a score of "0, high risk". This is useless garbage, and dangerous to boot. T…
In that context it makes sense that a cloud IP that's used to send mail would be treated with suspicion if it's seen trying to make a purchase on an e-commerce site.
Humph. My home IP address which is shared by thousands of random people behind two layers of NAT, in Brazil, gets a score of "63, low risk". My mail server, on Linode in the US, which has had the same IP# for about 20 years and sends mail to GMail and Microsoft without problems (and only from a small group of people who never send spam) gets a score of "0, high risk". This is useless garbage, and dangerous to boot. T…