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Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Subject: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
From: laszlo at heliacal.net (Laszlo Hanyecz)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:33:53 +0000
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On 2016-06-06 19:39, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> ?Doing any sort of 'authentication' or 'authorization' on src-IP is just ..
> broken.?
>
>

This.

Netflix is pretending to have a capability (geolocation by src ip) that 
doesn't exist and there is collateral damage from the application of 
their half baked solution.  Those who end up getting dropped as 
collateral damage are rightly upset about the discrimination.

-Laszlo

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