#Geoblocking

2025-05-09

When can we declare IP Geo location / country code blocking practically dead as a mitigation strategy?

Sure it is still useful blocking script kiddies from Iran and other low hanging fruit, but do any serious APT crews actually launch attacks from their home country anymore?

With the use of zero trust, distributed attack and delivery networks (looking at you Cloudflare), and VPN usage country blocking feels less useful than in the past.

#zerotrust #geoblocking #apt #scriptkiddie #networksecurity #cloudflare

2025-05-06

@EUCommission My proposal for unlocking the potential of one particular 🇪🇺 creative industry (one we invented in Europe) is to smack Ruben Östlund and all politicians he's lobbied for #geoblocking over the head with the Consolidated version of The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union open at Article 101 until they stop blocking Europeans from learning about each other and entertaining each other with 🇪🇺 popculture.

eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/1115

#cinema #eurocultura #MyOwnPersonalJihad

2025-05-05

AppleTV: “Do you want to use your account on this (vacation home) AppleTV? Sign in!”

Me: Sure, and install my previously installed Discovery+ app so I can watch Snooker!

AppleTV: “I’ll switch to the German App Store and install that app for you!“

Me: “Cool! Open it.”

Discovery+ App: “You’re in Denmark, Discovery+ is Max here. Please install the Max app.”

App Store Germany: “There is no Max app here.”

#Snooker #Apple #Geoblocking

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-04-25

@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.

Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)

  • I mean they could've also gone the #DECnet approach and use the #EUI48 / #MAC-Address (or #EUI64) as static addressing system, but that would've made #vendors and not #ISPs the powerful forces of allocation. (Similar to how technically the #ICCID dictates #GSM / #4G / #5G access and not the #IMEI unless places like Australia ban imported devices.

I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...

If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!

The regional government of Carinthia is blocking connections from anywhere except a few western-european countries on their main website.

ktn.gv.at

geoblock.net/0a0d6e43-3579-4cc

Don't be like Carinthia.

#GeoBlocking #Austria #Kaernten #InfoSec

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-04-21

@shoppingtonz @alternativeto @torproject also every #Tunneling - regardless if #SSH or #VPN or whatever - will inevitably introduce #latency (unless you happen to be customer of a shitty #ISP with horrible #peering and thus can cut down on hops needed, which is AFAIK only a theoretical scenario)...

In fact I stopped using #HEnet #Tunnelbroker and #IPv6-#GIF-Tunneling because it created more issued than it solved on my #IPv4only #Internet connection…

2025-04-04

Apple devices from China: Tough blockade by Apple Intelligence

Anyone who buys a Mac, iPhone & iPad in China cannot start Apple Intelligence on it, even with a suitable account. Apple apparently uses hard geoblocking.

heise.de/en/news/Apple-devices

#Apple #AppleIntelligence #Geoblocking #iOS #iPad #iPhone #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mac #Mobiles #Wirtschaft #news

2025-04-04

Apple-Geräte aus China: Harte Blockade von Apple Intelligence

Wer Mac, iPhone & iPad in China kauft, kann darauf Apple Intelligence nicht starten, auch nicht mit passendem Account. Apple nutzt offenbar hartes Geoblocking.

heise.de/news/Apple-Geraete-au

#Apple #AppleIntelligence #Geoblocking #iOS #iPad #iPhone #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mac #Mobiles #Wirtschaft #news

2025-03-28

@seyon @bossito Especialmente para a ficção, sim. Há um lobby intenso da indústria em todas as instituições da UE para bloquear qualquer tentativa de eliminar o #geoblocking.

2025-03-25

📬 Dropden.com offline: Freehoster mit technischem Fehler oder Abschaltung?
#Filesharing #Sharehoster #Blockierungen #filehoster #Geoblocking #nichterreichbar sc.tarnkappe.info/735a24

2025-03-22

Узнал слово, которым это всё называется — геоблокировка (geo-blocking, geoblocking, geolocking) ⦾ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-blocworkspace.ru/blog/geologyrocks #geoblocking #words #web2 #webbarriers

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-03-20

@fennix TBH, I think those bs claims should be illegal.

The only valid claims I've seen is that it enables people to circumvent #geoblocking and potentially #InternetCensorship as well as #TrafficDiscrimination due to lack of #NetNeutrality, but those are always to be taken with a truckload of salt!

Most certsinly, there are no "#loglessVPN|s" and no #VPN provider will risk jailtime for any.client

Sascha 😈 ⁂ (Fediverse)sascha@fedinaut.de
2025-03-05

Wenn die ARD Dinge sieht die es nicht gibt


Eben wollte ich schnell mal online auf den Stream des Ersten rein switchen, Betonung liegt auf wollte. Den ich bekam folgendes präsentiert:

Dumm nur das ich weder im Ausland sitze, noch gerade eine VPN-Verbindung über einen Server im Ausland nutze. Auch die Sprache kann es nicht sein, die steht auf deutsch.

Wo ist also das Problem?

#Frage #ARD #ARDMediathek #Geoblocking #kaputt #2025-03-05 @askfedi_de

Screenshot ARD Audiothek
2025-02-23

Ich schaue als #Auslandsdeutsche gerade die Wahlsendung der @tagesschau, aber ich muss mich via VPN ins Netz der Universität Mainz einloggen, um die Sendung online zu sehen. Zum Glück habe ich da noch Zugang! Ansonsten greift leider das #Geoblocking. Liebe #ARD, ich verstehe ja, dass Champions League nicht global frei ausgestrahlt wird, aber eine politische Sendung, die auch im Ausland lebende Deutsche betrifft, die sollte auf jeden Fall für alle zugänglich sein! Das sehe ich als Grundauftrag.

2025-02-21

@0xabad1dea

I'm pretty sure there weren't #geoblocking in 1985.

screenshot nos.nl showing a message the stream can not be seen in my country.

Deze livestream is niet beschikbaar in jouw land

Sommige livestreams op nos.nl zijn in verband met rechten niet overal te bekijken. Helaas kun je dezelivestream niet afspelen vanaf jouw locatie.
FLASH UPflashupde
2025-02-10
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2025-02-10
Konstantin Macherpneutig@eupolicy.social
2025-02-09

Hoffe mal, dass das bis zum Start des #TVDuell anders aus.
#Geoblocking #ARD

Screenshot von der ARD Mediathek während der Tagesschau. Das Video wird aufgrund von Geoblocking nicht angezeigt.
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-02-09

@kubikpixel @malwaretech @tomscott or to put it into perspective:

I worked at a telco, and whilst clients were above-average in terns of bahaviour, one does get a high single digit or low double-digit amount of LEA requests per day per x million customers.

Now imagine the average #VPN has similar utilization as a #CGNAT, so easily they'll have #LawfulInterception going on 24/7 because logless VPNs are a lie and besides circumventing #Geoblocking they don't do anything else...

  • In fact I'd argue it'll be more privacy friendly to self-host a VPN on-demand with flexible hoster or just having a fixed IP at home, simply because those usually have a higher bar for getting surveillance approved.

TLDR: Just get @torproject @tails_live @tails / #Tails and good.

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