Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

[Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>]

On Wed 2016-Jun-08 11:23:35 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > On Jun 7, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Mark Felder <feld () feld me> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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

> Mark,
>
> That would be bad.

The "/s" was of particular importance in Mark's email and I believe 
intended to apply to the whole line of reasoning, not just the "it's easy 
to get those blocks" section at the end.

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