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Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by NoZebra120vClip on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:57PM (#37438625)
> What I suggest is to make all Tier-1 ISPs adapt a protocol that would allow any host to block incoming traffic from specific IP/subnet at all upstream providers.

Cool story bro, and this is authenticated and secured, how? What happens when malware starts black-holing Google and Microsoft for all my devices? What happens when a botnet starts black-holding Cloudflare for all their neighbors? You want to prevent a floody-floody DDOS by creating opportunities for another variety of DDOS?

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Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by codedokode on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:00PM (#37446863)
> What happens when malware starts black-holing Google and Microsoft for all my devices?

You will send an unblock packet. Well, maybe this protocol should only work for commercial IP addresses, not for residential.

> this is authenticated and secured, how?

By your source IP address. You can only block traffic to your own IP address.

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Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by NoZebra120vClip on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:14AM (#37452843)
> By your source IP address.

Hey, 1985 called, and they want their authentication methods back.

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