I'd venture to say that this is the result of the following phenomena: Block all APNIC and RIPE assigned networks at the border and all of the sudden, hack attempts and CC fraud disappear. It's fan-%^&#ing-tasticly simple to do and so very effective.
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So pretty much, you wish to create many different Internet 'islands' by isolating networks that are assigned address space from APNIC and RIPE? By doing so you threaten e-commerce and the businesses of many who receive their international customers via the Internet and yet this is effective. As communication overseas advances in the physical world, you'd further hinder the advancement of the Internet, give ISP's no other choice than cutting their many trans-Atlantic fiber links, and those who wish to keep their links up have to rely on the other side to not be angered and pull the plug on their side, yet this is effective. Take a look at Attrition.org's defacement archive, the majority of the defacers are from the United States, and a lesser crowd from APNIC/RIPE networks, I can't speak on credit card fraud, but should we in turn go around segregating the ARIN networks due to internal misuse, would that be 'effective' to you? On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Universal Rundle wrote:
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Not too far off. Many dot-com's routinely block *.edu. After all, neither students or teachers, in the US, have money to buy things with and CS students are the worst kind of script-kiddee. <grin> [students are always broke and teachers are chronically under-paid]
I can't believe all the hate-mail I just got for this. I must have hit a real nerve. It was a sarcastic comment, folks in EDU are seriously humor impaired. Doesn't anyone know what <grin>s are anymore? What I meant was that blocking entire RIR block is the same as blocking entire TLDs, equally counter-productive. It may be effective, but it is also tossing out babies with the bathwater. Cutting your Internet feed is equally effective. I don't think that anyone here will do that in the near-future. Even blocking large SLDs is questionable.
What I meant was that blocking entire RIR block is the same as blocking entire TLDs, equally counter-productive. It may be effective, but it is also tossing out babies with the bathwater. Cutting your Internet feed is equally effective. I don't think that anyone here will do that in the near-future.
Some of us do it all the time. Air-gaps are good things to have in the tool box.
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Adam Rothschild -
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Omachonu Ogali -
Roeland Meyer (E-mail) -
Universal Rundle