Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by kortilla on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:54AM
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This blog post is written for lay persons, presumably because it’s meant to persuade policy makers and not people who understand this is exactly how CF operates and they don’t like the taste of their own medicine.
Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by bootsmann on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:24AM
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The company I work for operates in the IPsec space and to be entirely fair to cloudflare here, serving captcha to anyone from a tor exit node is probably a fairly reasonable way to approach it. The amount of threats that rely on tor (and cheap untrustworthy vpn services) for anonymization more than justifies it. Any statistical model trying to block threats will naturally start flagging tor exit-nodes just by nature of the amount of attacks people try to abuse it for.
Re:The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
by hackernewds on Friday December 30, 2022 @07:53AM
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> "captchas aren't blocking!", consider that the end result is exactly the same with just a different statistical success rate.
How so? The outcomes could be different depending on how different the statistical success rates are
Before you step in and go “captchas aren’t blocking!”, consider that the end result is exactly the same with just a different statistical success rate. Cloudflare has systematically discriminated against privacy sensitive users for years based on IP and now they cry foul when it happens to them. Hilarious.
Maybe this will have a decent outcome in provoking more interest in decentralization.