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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by CJefferson on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:29PM (#34179534)
However, a court will issue a search warrant for the entirety of a shared house, as there is no external way to distinguish which time are used by who from the outside.

The problem with this article I have is it says "no IP banning" without, as far as I can see, suggesting an alternative which will work well in practice.

DNS blocking can work, but requires hiring every DNS server, a major undertaking. Laws are no help if one country wants to block access to a server in another country.

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Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses by lionkor on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:23AM (#34184048)
Just because there is no alternative, doesn't justify the means.

If they cannot figure out a way to block malicious actors, they cant just randomly block every second request - though that would also work just as well. Malicious people would just try again, and the collateral often wont. Same result.

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