It's complicated. Lots of sites want to geoblock Russia for good reasons, but it's not always clear if an IP address is Russian or Ukrainian. https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-russification-of-ukrainian-i...

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Yizahi 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Geoblock is kids game. Try birthblock. Western megacorps are asking Ukrainians for the passport data, to prove they are from Ukraine and then block them anyway, if they were born in the currently russian occupied regions. And they don't accept any proof of living outside of those regions. This is the level of sewing a yellow star on your work robe, but no one if talking about it or shaming the corporations.

	▲	hofrogs 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is absolutely insane but also completely unsurprising

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feelamee 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

can you explain what is the good reason here? Im constantly meet this problem and interested why

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bzzzt 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Looking at service logs at my company show a serious amount of hacking attempts by bots originating from Russian and Chinese IP addresses. Mostly harmless on an updated server not running an ancient Wordpress but attempts nonetheless.

For companies that don't serve customers there it's very common to just block those network ranges. Of course, it's no real solution, but some people are convinced every security layer contributes to 'defense in depth'.

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feelamee 10 hours ago | parent [-]

wow, did these attacks start after the beginning of military actions in Ukraine in 2022? Or they were a long time before.

Thanks for clarification

	▲	bzzzt 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not specifically Ukraine related, (spam) botnet harvesting is a much older practice. It was already a problem at my first job at the beginning of the century...