flexthismotherfucker

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Fri Sep 16 12:54:48 PDT 2016


> On Sep 16, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Razer <rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/16/2016 02:55 AM, Ben Tasker wrote:
>>>>> But then you'll say that it's just americunts pretending to be
>>>>> Chinsese ;)
>>>> 
>>>>      And you can't prove that's not the case?
>>> 
>>> Nope, I can't. I just do whois on the IPs. Maybe whois is faked. Or
>>> maybe they're just leased anonymously.
>> 
>> I've seen more boxes in China that were /very/ poorly secured than not
>> (could be selection bias of course) so it's just as likely they're
>> compromised boxes. In fact in the majority of cases it's probably more
>> likely - China's a good place to originate from if your aim is to make
>> it difficult for anyone in the Western World to trace a connection back
>> to your real location - at least by legal methods.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ben Tasker
>> https://www.bentasker.co.uk
> 
> 
> When HideMyAss was still providing lists of free open proxies China was
> alway on that list, and lots of them.
> 
> Rr

My badhosts table (generated by fail2ban -> pf, listening on a few services, most bans are from ssh probes) is currently like 75% hosts out of South Brisbane, Australia.  The rest are from all over - about 10% China, some Russia, Europe, America.... weird distribution.

Lots of 222.0.0.0/8.

John



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