alt Hacker NewsThis makes me a little sad. There's an ideal built into the Internet, that it has no borders, that individuals around the world can connect directly. Blocking an entire geographic region because of a few bad actors kills that. I see why it's done, but it's unfortunate
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I know what you mean.
But the numbers don't lie. In my case, I locked down to a fairly small group of European countries and the server went down from about 1500 bot scans per day down to 0.
The tradeoff is just too big to ignore.
It's not because of a few bad actors, it's because of a hostile or incompetent government.
Every country has (at the very least) a few bad actors, it's a small handful of countries that actively protect their bad actors from any sort of accountability or identification.
You can't make the argument that it's a small group of bad actors. It's quite a massive group of unrelentingly malicious actors