Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Hugo Slabbert hugo at slabnet.com
Wed Jun 8 15:49:54 UTC 2016


On Wed 2016-Jun-08 11:23:35 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> --
>>  Mark Felder
>>  feld at feld.me

>Mark,
>
>That would be bad.

The "/s" was of particular importance in Mark's email and I believe 
intended to apply to the whole line of reasoning, not just the "it's easy 
to get those blocks" section at the end.

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