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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
From: Mark Felder <feld () feld me>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:21:16 -0500
On Jun 6, 2016, at 22:25, Spencer Ryan <sryan () arbor net> wrote: The tunnelbroker service acts exactly like a VPN. It allows you, from any arbitrary location in the world with an IPv4 address, to bring traffic out via one of HE's 4 POP's, while completely masking your actual location.
Perhaps Netflix should automatically block any connection that's not from a known residential ISP or mobile ISP as anything else could be a server someone is proxying through. It's very easy to get these subnets -- the spam filtering folks have these subnets well documented. /s -- Mark Felder feld () feld me
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- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed, (continued)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mark Andrews (Jun 05)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ricky Beam (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mark Andrews (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ricky Beam (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Blair Trosper (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Spencer Ryan (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Blair Trosper (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 06)
- Re[2]: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Matthew Kaufman (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mark Felder (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Cryptographrix (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mike Hammett (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed joel jaeggli (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ca By (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Cryptographrix (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ca By (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Davide Davini (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 08)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed joel jaeggli (Jun 08)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 08)