Comment by alightsoul
4 days ago
>A lot of companies already block traffic by country of origin and have since they existed on the internet.
Is this an American thing? For example the home Depot and velera do it.
4 days ago
>A lot of companies already block traffic by country of origin and have since they existed on the internet.
Is this an American thing? For example the home Depot and velera do it.
I've seen network operators talk about it from all over the world.
If Sarah owns a gardening center and sells stuff locally, why does her business need to accept connections to her website or network from a foreign country? For her given the attack risk, it makes much more sense to block non-local traffic.
Foreign attacks are usually just VPNs. Something like cloudflare is much more effective imo. This is based on racism imo because for example it implies banning foreign search engines or market research. I can't help but think it fits in nicely with what ICE does in the US and the people who voted for it. It's not effective because all you're doing is banning foreign VPNs so it is trivial to just pick a US server.
Dropping packets from far off sources isn't racism. It may be xenophobia. But it's also potentially reasonable when the cost of serving that traffic vastly exceeds expected benefits from paying those costs.
Wholesale blocking foreign country IP's is both an extraordinarily common practice and extremely effective. It has nothing to do with the political topics you chose to voice.
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> It's not effective because all you're doing is banning foreign VPNs so it is trivial to just pick a US server.
It's incredibly effective at keeping the trash script kiddies out, which is why companies and governments and people do it. It's also part of zerotrust networking, limiting access only from places that need it and when.