Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Tue Jun 7 13:21:16 UTC 2016


> On Jun 6, 2016, at 22:25, Spencer Ryan <sryan at arbor.net> wrote:
> 
> The tunnelbroker service acts exactly like a VPN. It allows you, from any
> arbitrary location in the world with an IPv4 address, to bring traffic out
> via one of HE's 4 POP's, while completely masking your actual location.
> 

Perhaps Netflix should automatically block any connection that's not from a known residential ISP or mobile ISP as anything else could be a server someone is proxying through. It's very easy to get these subnets -- the spam filtering folks have these subnets well documented. /s

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  Mark Felder
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