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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed


From: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo () heliacal net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:33:53 +0000

On 2016-06-06 19:39, Christopher Morrow wrote:

​Doing any sort of 'authentication' or 'authorization' on src-IP is just ..
broken.​



This.

Netflix is pretending to have a capability (geolocation by src ip) that doesn't exist and there is collateral damage from the application of their half baked solution. Those who end up getting dropped as collateral damage are rightly upset about the discrimination.

-Laszlo


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