Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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597 points classichasclass | 2 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source

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praptak ◴[25 Aug 25 07:40 UTC] No.45011309[source]▶

"I'm seriously thinking that the CCP encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall to the rest of the world. If China scrapes content, that's fine as far as the CCP goes; If it's blocked, that's fine by the CCP too (I say, as I adjust my tin foil hat)."

Then turn the tables on them and make the Great Firewall do your job! Just choose a random snippet about illegal Chinese occupation of Tibet or human rights abuses of Uyghur people each time you generate a page and insert it as a breaker between paragraphs. This should get you blocked in no time :)

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1. blueflow ◴[25 Aug 25 15:16 UTC] No.45014796[source]▶

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I just tried this, i took some strings about Falun Gong and the Tianmen thing from the chinese wikipedia and put them into my SSH server banner. The connection attempts from the Tencent AS ceased completely, but now they come from Russia, Lithuania and Iran instead.

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2. gitpusher ◴[25 Aug 25 17:32 UTC] No.45016402[source]▶

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Whoa, that's fascinating. So their botnet runs in multiple regions and will auto-switch if one has problems. Makes sense. Seems a bit strange to use China as the primary, though. Unless of course the attacker is based in China? Of the countries you mentioned Lithuania seems a much better choice. They have excellent pipes to EU and North America, and there's no firewall to deal with

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