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by notpushkin 37 days ago
It’s unfortunately not something Russians can fix either.

And I understand the desire to just blackhole all RU traffic, but if everybody starts doing this, it would result in two things:

1. Ordinary Russians who want to just read your website will have to jump through hoops (or probably find another source; I don’t live in Russia anymore but find myself clinging to the latter option for websites that decide to block all non-US traffic)

2. Hackers will... use botnets to proxy their traffic? It’s not like they don’t have options, they just pick lowest hanging fruits for now.

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The proper solution to the hackers problem is:

• Use static sites for static content

• Practice good security for webapps, and maybe use a WAF