On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you're not going to use something like Cloudflare or Anubis > sometimes you do *have* to do this just to keep the site up - we have > blocked the entirety of Brazil from Fedora infra a couple of times so > far (since, as Jelle noted, for some reason a lot of this traffic comes > from Brazil) There were an estimated 400,000 devices that have been harvested as worker bots in Brazil alone (some of which appear to be poorly maintained IoT devices, and some others are pirate IPTV boxes) which have also been used in various DDOS attacks, but the botnet herders can make money selling their flock to the AI companies, so they have. There is nothing so special about Brazil that another country can not see a similar situation happen at some point to them. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
