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by thrwwycbr 841 days ago
As if IPs matter in the golden age of IoT botnets and residential app malware.

You can't even block the amount of subnets that's coming for you in a DDoS attack, thinking a human is able to keep up with something like this is pretty blindsighted and naive. The differentiation of network protocols and relay attacks alone is way too slow to be mitigated in most systems.

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They're talking about rate limiting based on destination, not source.