Exit IPs from big tech corp networks

Posted Jan 29, 2025 13:02 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Turnabout is fair play by paulj
Parent article: Linux-related discussion as a cybersecurity threat

It's also worth noting that big tech already pays for "consumer" connections (VPNs via companies like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Surfshark, Proton v p n etc as well as local ISP consumer connections) for the specific purpose of getting round IP-based restrictions. This ensures that when you get a report that says a resource you're linking to is abusive, you can look from at least three different places - corporate office network, infrastructure network, and consumer network - to see if the reported resource is disguising itself when you check from the company's own networks (which is itself a breach of policy, and would result in the resource being blocked).

This could be reused to get round IP blocks on kernel.org quite easily.