[kkaske]

I did find that, while running a financial startup, I was able to significantly reduce attacks on the server by disabling access from Russia and China. Not saying that's happening here, just my experience. That was a while ago so I'm sure things have changed since then.

[red75prime]

That is it was more financially effective to block an entire country, than analyzing attack patterns and blocking by ASNs or IP-ranges. Correct?

[astrange]

Startups don't have enough free time to analyze individual ASNs, because they don't have enough people for that.

That and financial businesses usually don't operate outside their host country anyway. Though you do want your customers to see their accounts when they're traveling.

[pyuser583]

Yes. Multiple countries.

In all fairness, this isn’t a good use of that technique. But most websites are of no interest outside a handful of countries.

[s1110]

Thanks for your reply! I hope this is the real reason of blocking. If that's not the case, that's at least not effective. Less effective than idk placing a banner in the header or whatever.

I mean I eventually read the article. Sorry for that. But we're at "Hacker News", sporting hackers ethics, aren't we?

[inferiorhuman]

Opposing the invasion of Ukraine and the biggest existential threat Europe's faced in a couple generations seems pretty ethical to me.

[pyuser583]

We should be jamming American media down Russias throats like we did during the Cold War.

[wood_spirit]

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were one of the very first things that the Trump presidency stopped.

[drysine]

By preventing some computer history enthusiast in Russia from reading an article on a processor from 1985? Really?