April 23, 2009
IP Blocking China & The Russian Federation
I have decided to temporarily deny access to this site to about half the world’s population. Why have I done this? I grew tired of the constant cyber attack attempts by script kiddies sitting in their underwear surrounded by empty pizza boxes and dirty laundry looking to hone their “hacking skills”. This site has performed as a hackers playground for long enough. To paraphrase Peggy Lee: “You can no longer play in my yard“—please go and play somewhere else kiddos.
And no, I am not being “unfairly discriminatory” here: anybody who knows how to read a log file and do a little digging can find out where script kiddie attacks are coming from (I’m not talking about “real” hackers here—the kind that know how to conceal their activity by rerouting their page requests).
So from now on, anyone in China or the Russian Federation trying to directly access this site is now being blocked. Sorry folks, but enough is enough.
I got my IP range for China at www.okean.com and for the Russian Federation at www.countryipblocks.net. The downside is that it increases my .htaccess file to a whopping 150kb—which is a shame as this file is read by Apache with every request to the server.