[189773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laszlo Hanyecz)
Mon Jun 6 17:36:09 2016
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From: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:33:53 +0000
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On 2016-06-06 19:39, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> Doing any sort of 'authentication' or 'authorization' on src-IP is just ..
> broken.
>
>
This.
Netflix is pretending to have a capability (geolocation by src ip) that
doesn't exist and there is collateral damage from the application of
their half baked solution. Those who end up getting dropped as
collateral damage are rightly upset about the discrimination.
-Laszlo
