> Honest question: what impact did you see when you switched from not blocking China + Russia to blocking them? What type of attacks are you seeing primarily?
Thousands of brute force login attempts per day gone. The effect is, as you say, small, but it was non 0 and now it is 0, and it's a bunch of noise I don't have to wade through.
> Failed login attempts / brute force attempts seem like the cost of doing business in public.
Yup, and I pay that cost by blocking the source of 98% of them.
> purely like a fear response with no rational basis (or at least a poor understanding of probability / stats)
Thanks, clearly you know me well /s. And honestly, again, I don't feel that I even NEED a rational basis. It's my system, I'll block whomever I feel like blocking for whatever reason I want, thanks. If you want to deride me by calling into question my motives, you can do that too for whatever reason YOU want to, but that's on you.
> If you want to deride me by calling into question my motives, you can do that too for whatever reason YOU want to, but that's on you
You are free to act under whatever impetus you want and while I did call in to question your motives (implicitly), I never meant that as a derision. I frequently ask myself "why am I doing this?". It usually doesn't hurt to self reflect.
Edit: Something about this kept nagging me. And I think its this:
>It's my system, I'll block whomever I feel like blocking for whatever reason I want, thanks.
I see parallels to a sentiment that used to be fairly common in the U.S.:
"It's my store, I'll refuse whomever I feel like refusing for whatever reason I want, thanks"
Laws against that kind of thing are relatively new (1964?). You have a valid reason to block certain users (hacks) but do you really not see a problem extending that to national origin?
Thousands of brute force login attempts per day gone. The effect is, as you say, small, but it was non 0 and now it is 0, and it's a bunch of noise I don't have to wade through.
> Failed login attempts / brute force attempts seem like the cost of doing business in public.
Yup, and I pay that cost by blocking the source of 98% of them.
> purely like a fear response with no rational basis (or at least a poor understanding of probability / stats)
Thanks, clearly you know me well /s. And honestly, again, I don't feel that I even NEED a rational basis. It's my system, I'll block whomever I feel like blocking for whatever reason I want, thanks. If you want to deride me by calling into question my motives, you can do that too for whatever reason YOU want to, but that's on you.