The Fediverse, a network of independently run servers using the ActivityPub protocol, is #segmented by #serverblocks.
🚧 These #blocks, often based on imported #blocklists, create #echochambers and hinder message threads.
🏔️ While #decentralisation is a goal, the Fediverse’s current state, with heavy-handed #moderation and #serverblocking, undermines this principle.
👉 https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-broken-fediverse?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
💭 What if 50% of the malicious IPs you block aren’t even on the radar of 89 out of 92 top threat intel vendors?
That’s exactly what #CrowdSec delivers.
🛡️ Powered by a global community analyzing live attacks, 50% of our malicious IPs are unique. Get visibility others don’t have.
16% of proven-aggressive IPs CrowdSec blocks are still unknown to other vendors for 15 to 20 days. 👀
🗓️ That’s over two weeks where you’re protected while others remain exposed.
How do we do it?
#CrowdSec leverages a #collaborative network of thousands of contributors worldwide, enabling us to detect and block malicious behavior before it becomes common knowledge.
Learn more 👉 https://crowdsec.net/blocklists
Should I Stop Caring and Let IP Address Reputation Sort Them Out? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/should_i_stop_caring_and_let_ip_reputation_sort_them_out.html
How long does data on misbehaving hosts on the Internet stay relevant in an IP Address Reputation context?
Link to poll within (on for a week, 4 days left, please *do* vote).
#security #passwordguessing #antispam #sshgropers #pop3gropers #blacklists #blocklists #bruteforcers #spam #cybercrime #ipreputation
(repost for the CET-ish crowd, some still in holiday mode, and with graphics of sorts added)
> [C]ommunity boundary #blocklists [have] incited conflict on the #Fediverse, with many users left cut off from their communities …. Using … #GroundedTheory, we interviewed 9 Fediverse users, including a mix of community boundary blocklist curators, server staff, and regular users, to determine key tensions between community moderation and mutual aid practices
2 May 2025, #openaccess: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919
Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito
AI Crawlers stealing your content? Time to fight back! 💪
LLMs and AI bots are scraping the web, stealing up your data, hogging bandwidth, and even crashing servers under aggressive loads.
Don’t let them freeload! The CrowdSec AI Crawlers Blocklist stops unwanted harvesting before it hurts your site’s performance or privacy.
Regain control over your digital assets: https://crowdsec.net/blog/protect-against-ai-crawlers
#AIcrawlers #blocklists #threatintelligence #cybersecurity #infosec #AIbots #dataprotection
Region Östergötland safeguards healthcare for 500,000 residents with the CrowdSec Blocklists. 🛡️
🇸🇪 As Sweden’s leading healthcare provider, Region Östergötland faces relentless cyber threats targeting critical infrastructure, including 3 data centers and 1,500 servers. Traditional measures like geo-blocking and free IP blocklists weren’t enough to keep up with evolving attacks.
Since deploying the CrowdSec Threat Intelligence Blocklist in February 2025, the results have been staggering:
• 215 million malicious IPs blocked in just weeks
• 6 million attacks stopped within the first 2 hours of deployment
• Improved firewall performance by filtering malicious traffic early
Discover how CrowdSec secures vital healthcare systems in our latest success story: https://www.crowdsec.net/blog/region-ostergotland-safeguards-healthcare-with-crowdsec
#successsotry #threatintelligence #blocklists #healthcare #infosec
When someone says "We are going to block instance A, you too should defederate them and dissociate. If you are a user on that instance, leave immediately or else you too will be isolated", please remember to ask for reasons, evidence and factual substantiation. Also make sure you search the fediverse using your own search facility and other tools and see if you can find the chain of events that lead to the present situation. This will take time. But make sure you do this. This is specially important if you are an admin of an instance; if you are in charge of other people's accounts. In that case you are taking decisions that will impact on other people's freedoms and experience.
AI.Robots.txt
Community-maintained list of AI crawlers including robots.txt rules to *tell* them not to crawl your site, and htaccess and Nginx rules to actually *block* them.
See also Dark Visitors.
Found via GoToSocial docs.
Why Italy’s #Piracy Shield risks moving from tiresome digital farce to serious national tragedy – Walled Culture
#Blocklists are drawn up by #copyright companies, without any review, or the possibility of any objections, and those blocks must be enforced within 30 minutes. Needless to say, such a ham-fisted and biased approach to copyright infringement is already producing some horrendous blunders
More "AI" spam for you block lists. #BlockLists #BlockRecommendation
RE: https://mastodon.online/users/ComicCrusaders/statuses/114199771610525401
Likely not blogworthy in itself, but #openbsd #spamd aficionados will get a light chuckle from hearing that some scraping and massaging relevant logs had the number of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml for our not-friends to play with roll past the one million mark in the early hours of today CET.
The recent update of https://nxdomain.no/~peter/harvesting_the_noise_revisited.html has links to more info. #spam #antispam #greytrapping #blocklists #cybercrime
@pitrh can I separate out the aspects? While I think they *should* publish their auto-expiration policies, they should also be allowed to decide whether something is for a fixed-length or indefinite timeframe (as long as that policy is published). This allows folks who use #blocklists to decide which they prefer.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Got a minute? #SearchClub would love to get your feedback on some potential "easy starter projects" to help reclaim search for the searcher - and any other ideas you'd like to share.
Check out the ChaosPad, and let us know what you think: https://pads.ccc.de/rNBu09Mr2M. Perhaps you'd like to get involved? Even better! :blobfoxhyper2:
#38C3 #CCC #Search #Discovery #SearchEngines #LLM #LLMs #GenAI #MushroomForaging #PizzaGlue #Mwmbl #SearXNG #Blocklists #uBlock #uBlockOrigin #uBlacklist
@DeltaWye @SynAck @Kuniti_shino @ErikUden OFC that's the nature of most services tht are open t new users.
#Shitter (rather #Teitter before #Mus ruined it!) had #API #RateLimiting to make #Spamming less effective (255 Statuses per 24hrs) even back when #TweetDeck was a seperate company...
It won't prevent it entirely but make it more cumbersome.
This prevents remediation and correction of #banlists & #blocklists, leaving a lot if domains burned forever as the only.options are "replace" and "merge" and the average #ActivityPub admin or even #User isn't going to learn or setup a #git!
I.e. there isn't really a good way to combat #Typosquatting-based #Phishing beyond banning.offending domains...
