alt Hacker NewsYeah, my setup is purely for my own security reasons and interests, so there's very little downside to my scorched earth approach.
I do, however, think that if there was a more widespread scorched earth approach then the issues like those mentioned in the article would be much less common.
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Gigachad • today at 2:44 AM
If you actually wanted your site or service to be accessible you’d run in to issues immediately since once IP would have cycled between hundreds of homes in a year.
IP based bans have long been obsolete.
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In such a world you can say goodbye to any kind of free Wi-Fi, anonymous proxy etc., since all it would take to burn an IP for a year is to run a port scan from it, so nobody would risk letting you use theirs.
Fortunately, real network admins are smarter than that.