Re: firefox: annoyance

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If this inconvenience's an innocent web user, I have neither ability to
> detect the inconvenience nor to determine the user's innocence. I
> understand your hotel analogue. In England many hotel guests use their
> mobile phones or tablets - not on wifi but on direct radio (mobile
> telephone) links; each link having a distinctive IP address.
>
> If the web hacker is operating through a data centre, then I permanently
> block, for port 80, the whole of the data centre's known IP block.
>
> The alternative is to be a willing victim.

It's more a question of why you run the service at all.  If blocking
people from reaching it doesn't bother you, why not just shut it down?

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   Les Mikesell
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