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by bradley13 787 days ago
Not seeing how this is stereotyping. He is just presenting his results. Whether those results stem from direct attacks or botnets? He doesn't even speculate.

When I ran public servers a few years ago, I saw similar results. Since the company had no customers in Asia, we IP-blocked the entire continent.

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the distribution looks spot on for what it used to look back in late 2000's as well from my collection of memories (minus south america, russia)
Being surprised that there were more attacks from X countries as opposed to Y countries implies an expectation that there would be the opposite.