The startup I work for blocks all of china, russia, belarus and serbian IP space, which saves us about $50kper month in bandwidth charges. The absolutely first thing I do at every company and on every project is ask if I can block russia, china and belarussian IP space, and add all of their ASNs to the bogon list if we run our own bgp. They are never customers to the businesses of the companies I work for, but they s…
The US' foreign policy is to disrupt and steal as well, even to allies (the NSA engaged in industrial espionage on the Germany company Siemens). Moreover, DDoS attacks orginating from the US are sometimes greater than Chinese originated attacks -- as recently as a year ago [1] Also don't forget that some of the sketchiest providers on the internet are American, who routinely ignore abuse reports. NameCheap's abuse re…
Re: Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack
#91There’s also something beautifully awful about blocking entire countries due to the reputation their IP addresses have, while making strange, sweeping xenophobic statements about the people that live there, meanwhile a non-insignificant percentage of some of those attacks originate from the United States (e.g., the Mirai botnet that compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices and also held the CloudFlare record at one point was created by an American and operated from the U.S. despite many of the infected devices being located in some of these countries).