Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to Just Bob
Re: Is it time to block China? Google has asked for everyone's help in blocking bad sites such as these.
"The company has created an online form designed to make it easy for people to report sites they suspect of hosting malicious code. It's the latest step by Google to expand its database of the bad Web sites it knows about, as those sites continue to proliferate."
»www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/···s_1.html
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I've blocked .cn in my household proxy for quite some time. To be fair it certainly isn't the only top level domain blocked.
I also block quite a few netblocks with iptables on my router (both in and out).  |
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Yes
It is a benefit
All those chinese PC's are used as Botnets and zombies anyway
At least we can be somewhat safer. |
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maybe you can add Shaw to the blocked list too. |
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 bcoolPremium
join:2000-08-25
The Ozarks | reply to EGeezer
said by EGeezer:"Of course, the Cuban embargo has worked swimmingly so far." That was clever... did you do that on purpose? 
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KiwiPremium
join:2003-05-26
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Perhaps the real issue is that the internet is the last World wide attribute that's not truly managed. China does have a good deal of money invested in America (when was the last time you bought something that didn't have China stamped all over it).
Like the OP's heads up on the topic 
Somehow when these issues surface, I don't see a Country, I see it as the net and users. Many problems from Nigeria, as an example, do we blame Africa?
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 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
kudos:2 | reply to Just Bob
Block China, then how will Chinese people not in China access the non-malicious Web sites, etc.? I know a LOT of Chinese people who surf there. |
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join:2002-08-04
Midwest
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If the attack in the following link is proven to be Chinese in origin, perhaps those targeted by such attacks might consider a global block of Chinese IPs and whitelisting only those proven to be clean.
See here.
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said by no__1__here:I've blocked .cn in my household proxy for quite some time..I also block quite a few netblocks with iptables on my router (both in and out) how do you manage to do that? i would like to do that, too, if possible.. |
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There are many ways to do this, of course. For me personally, I have a Linksys WRT54GS flashed with 3rd-party firmware. The firewall is then standard iptables. I use that to block large chunks of the Internet, based on whois data, both inbound and outbound on all ports.
In addition, I have Squid configured to block many things (e.g. *.cn). The aforementioned firewall disallows any outbound HTTP unless it is from the Squid proxy.
To confuse the issue (but to be precise) I also have Proxomitron (Firefox -> Proxomitron -> Squid -> firewall -> Internet).
You could alsoinstead do something like a hosts file or Open DNS (don't know much about it, so you'd need to research it).
Hope that helps!
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