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lofaszvanitttoday at 7:05 AM1 replyview on HN

That list is a tad bit too long. Why don't they enforce a rule on these big corps to publicly state which range does what.


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Bendertoday at 11:15 AM

That would indeed by handy but I think the answer is that people would block specific ranges. By not segmenting into specific groups people are forced to either:

- play the game of whack-a-mole

- use difficult implementations of user validation checks that potentially cause pain for real humans

- block all Amazon CIDR blocks which they know most corporations will not do.

This forces the majority to just tolerate whatever comes out of their networks.