Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by cjbgkagh on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:26AM
(#32057382)
I range ban India from my websites. Cut my spam by 95%.
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Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by hallway_monitor on Monday July 11, 2022 @01:19PM
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This is honestly a great idea. None of my sites need or want non-US traffic. Why am I allowing it at all?
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by corrral on Monday July 11, 2022 @01:32PM
(#32059081)
Not a new tactic. A classic way to cut down exploit attempts to something you can actually monitor rather than a firehose, for sites that don't need an international audience, is to blackhole IP blocks from China and Russia. Sites have been doing that since at least the early 2000s.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by teh_klev on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:50PM
(#32062447)
This is futile. There's these services called VPN's that let me exit my traffic into the US.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by CSMastermind on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:21AM
(#32066292)
For a motivated attacker for sure but if you're just trying to cut down on run of the mill low quality stuff this seems effective.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by shapefrog on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:52AM
(#32066484)
> This is futile.
I will pop by and rob you later, I assume you have no windows, doors or locks and wont call the police after I clean you out because it would be futile.
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Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by cjbgkagh on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:50AM
(#32057731)
I do wonder how many of the remaining 5% are Indians with VPNs. We’re in a niche industry so we ignore enquirers from people we can’t verify. So no big deal. Just a shame that we can’t really do business with India via a website.
Edit: I don’t have a Twitter account so was unable to see what was linked
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by spullara on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:58AM
(#32065818)
Why would you need a Twitter account? I just went to that link in private browsing and it shows me their profile page, which is the link.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by corrral on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:19PM
(#32058147)
What's supposed to be at that link? I see a bunch of shit about Hunter Biden and what may or may not be this guy(?) gloating about wage theft.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by happytoexplain on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:52PM
(#32058604)
For me, the first thing is "leftwingers tend to be ugly and rightwingers tend to be beautiful". It seems to mostly be political shitposting.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by corrral on Monday July 11, 2022 @01:09PM
(#32058793)
Ah, yeah, that one's new since I posted.
The account falls into "can't tell if this is a parody of right-wing "hustle" bros, or if this guy(?) is serious" territory.
Re:Blackmail attempt left a Houston restaurant bombarded wit...
by PaywallBuster on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:06PM
(#32059539)
first example from search result