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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by dosethree on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:09AM (#25228797)
Companies need to stop treating IPs or groups of IPs like identifiers. When I'm in my office, I can't access yelp. They blocked that ip range for some reason, maybe because of something we did. We block entire countries at work because we were getting a lot of DDOS from those countries and we don't do business their but it ends up blocking a lot of legit use cases and wasting a lot of time.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by judge2020 on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:37PM (#25230708)
Your first mistake was using Yelp in any capacity[0-6]. Thankfully Apple is trying to drop Yelp by having their own review and photo system[7].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884515

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238576

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220988

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706307

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486468 (all the way back in 2009)

6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452410

7: https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/26/apple-maps-reviews-inhouse/

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by dvtrn on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:50AM (#25230247)
I worked at a company once that decided to add an entire range of IP addresses to their firewall’s deny list. Seems an executive had their personal home network pwned, and an unknown figure told him it was from a certain part of the world.

Said executive made enough noise and put enough pressure on the network engineers to get it done without question or delay or...most critically..a reviewed and authorized change control ticket that would have caught what was about to happen

Following Monday help desk was underwater triaging tickets from the entire office full of team members we had just denied from the corporate network, and customers who now couldn’t use our product at all.

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