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by OmarAssadi 1226 days ago
There’s also something beautifully awful about blocking entire countries due to the reputation their IP addresses have, while making strange, sweeping xenophobic statements about the people that live there, meanwhile a non-insignificant percentage of some of those attacks originate from the United States (e.g., the Mirai botnet that compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices and also held the CloudFlare record at one point was created by an American and operated from the U.S. despite many of the infected devices being located in some of these countries).