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Blocking a Nation's IP Space

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the haul-out-the-civil-disobedience dept.

SComps writes "The Register has a good commentary about blocking Chinese IP space and some of the pros and cons surrounding that action. The question I post to Slashdot: "What is your opinion of this and what do you propose to help correct this?" Additionally, what sort of actions do other Slashdot users take to protect themselves from rogue IP space, be it national borders or even retail broadband/dialup providers such as wannadoo or comcast, roadrunner, etc?" The author of the article raises an interesting point, will this 'slippery slope' prove too difficult to walk?

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  1. I agree. by Fishead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chinee Ip Space should TOTALLY be blocked. Those Chinee, they are always up to no good.

    Who are the Chinee anyhow?

    1. Re:I agree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Whoever marked this as Offtopic is trolling.

      Do I need to read idiotic "opinion" from morons who don't even bother to spell the subject he is discussing clearly?

      Mod the partent up

  2. I don't want to miss out on any opportunities! by yorgasor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got a friend that blocks email from Nigeria, but I'd never do that. You never know when someone really does need help moving millions of dollars out of the country and will gladly give me a cut of the proceeds. For that reason alone I'd never block them.

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  3. Re:what would cut down spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    we blocked any mail that contains a dollar ($) sign and it cut down our spam by 90+ percent (we dont have any customers or correspondance or business with any country that uses dollars as currency) and so far the results have been very successful with minimal false positives

    So in a sense we have cut off USA from our business operations and its amazing how useful email has become again

  4. Extensive Ban List, but more Russian than anything by ilselu1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've banned 80% more IPs from RU than everywhere else combined. Noone wants Hot Russian Blonde Escorts when you can have Hot Asian Escorts.. :P

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  5. The easy way to do it... by TheLittleJetson · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...just put a bunch of stuff on your website advocating a free and democratic China. They'll block it for you.

  6. Better proposals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't we ban .ro first as a testcase? If that works out and we lose around 70 - 80 percent of the online script kiddies we can continue some more evaluation.

  7. Re:I am chinese by fliplap · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whats your IP?

  8. Re:We did this with our online store by base3 · · Score: 2, Funny
    One day we looked and saw "JESUS CHRIST! Someone Just bought $678 worth of fake cock! Yeah!"

    <snip> You have been .sigged.

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  9. Re:some ideas for networking by General+Wesc · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can give you the world's "safest" Internet (and also the least useful): Block everything except 127.0.0.1.

    That won't protect my children from pornography.

  10. Re:My ban list is extensive but I'm a home user on by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Funny
    Personally, I have never received a single email that wasn't spam from any source within APNIC or RIPE, nor do I ever expect to.

    APNIC includes Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong ... fuck them then.