realistik1

The reality is the world is filled with bad guys. “Bad” is subjective. From the western point of view, it is crystal clear who our enemies are.

1. Not sure where you got 2tbps? I said 10gbps, but we use Alamai’s manages Prolexic ddos mitigation. At previous companies we would buy a half dozen of these, put them at different exchanges and buy transit from the biggest aggregators. This would cost about $4m to get started

2. I meant $50k per month, edited. This does not count loss of productivity.

> The startup I work for hasn't ever had issues with any of the things you mentioned. What line of business is this, do you sell weapons to Ukraine or some such?

Well, not directly,but this is the first time I was morally willing to work in parallel to the defense industry.

My previous startups were fintech. The customer I had who was attacked by China was Slideshare. Ultimately they bent over for China, and blocked them for a year.

Setup an IPS on a server exposed to the net. Record all attacks for a month, then look up the IP addresses, then you will understand.

I worked in network security at banks for a decade, really Russia and China are responsible for millions of attacks against westerm infrastrucuture in this century causing $10s of billions of damage. It is war.

I’ve been in the industry for over 30 years and I’ve seem some shit. Russia once took Estonia offlone for over a month.

Cloudflare and every other CDN understand that China and Russia is a liability, thats wht they make it easy to null route them.

The startup I work for blocks all of china, russia, belarus and serbian IP space, which saves us about $50kper month in bandwidth charges.

The absolutely first thing I do at every company and on every project is ask if I can block russia, china and belarussian IP space, and add all of their ASNs to the bogon list if we run our own bgp.

They are never customers to the businesses of the companies I work for, but they sure manage to harm our businesses.

Russisns mostly try to disrupt and steal because thats their foreign policy.

Chinese just try to destroy and censor. Worked at a company which hosted presentations, one of their 5 million presentations was critical of China. We received over 10,000 phone calls and close to a million emails in two days, and a sustained 10gbps ddos attack for a week.

Letting russia and china on the internet was a massive security mistake we should rectify. The world spends literally BILLIONS because chinarussia are frankly assholes online.

Edit: corrected $500k per month to $50kb per month.