Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking...
by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:29AM
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Key phrase: "a year"
If anybody is suggesting permanent bans of IPs, it's not me, at least not at a public level. I may very well choose privately to do that.
To clarify, me, personally chooses a blacklist policy. Not some other org. I think if you offload this onto any kind of external structure, it breaks again.
There's a huge commerical interest in NOT fixing the problem of random crap showing up, from dancing cats selling things to targeted inserted ads. I get it. We saw this same thing happen with adblockers. It's now going on with "free" VPNs. Can't fight that perverse incentive, so don't fight it.
If anybody is suggesting permanent bans of IPs, it's not me, at least not at a public level. I may very well choose privately to do that.
To clarify, me, personally chooses a blacklist policy. Not some other org. I think if you offload this onto any kind of external structure, it breaks again.
There's a huge commerical interest in NOT fixing the problem of random crap showing up, from dancing cats selling things to targeted inserted ads. I get it. We saw this same thing happen with adblockers. It's now going on with "free" VPNs. Can't fight that perverse incentive, so don't fight it.