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Re:A distributed peer to peer list of bad actor IP addresses... by MadsRC on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:28AM (#30221311)
Really cool project. To implement it though, one really should be careful to not just load the IPs nillywilly into ones ACL’s…

Run some test on the list before using it, to make sure your own assets isn’t mentioned in there. If you don’t, you end up creating a DOS vulnerability in your system :D

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Re:A distributed peer to peer list of bad actor IP addresses... by gavinhenry on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:23AM (#30222618)
Yes, you'd want to compare against your own IP allocations as a network operator. The real value is the test phone numbers being tried and probe patterns so you can get an early warning to a customers or users system being compromised before anything happens.
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