She configured her server to block requests from certain nations. One could suppose that's just due to some misconfiguration or something, but in fact it became a quite popular trend nowadays.
Apparently the definition of 'racism' has grown wildly in certain quarters.
One could suppose that's just due to some misconfiguration
Sure...but so much easier to assume they're a racist I guess.
Rachel has a weblog, she writes articles, I used to come to her blog to read them, I am not a customer of any of her services.
Now that she blocks users by their origin - I see she has no problems with being discriminatory. That's a shame, I thought of her a bit higher than that.
It used to work directly and now it doesn't.
It works via foreign proxy/VPN, but I'll just stop visiting her site from now until she stops with her racism.
I bet money she doesn't block requests by such a wide filter if the origin is USA.
That's not racist. It's pragmatic, reasonable, and a good idea. I haven't looked at the figures recently, but some years back over 90% of all automated exploits were coming from just 3 countries. If you don't do business in those 3 countries, blocking them wholesale massively decreases the risk of succumbing to an automated exploit and reduces the sheer noise in your operational workflows so you can focus on things that matter, not script kiddies with fat pipes.
It can also reduce your hosting costs significantly. I do this on every service I personally operate, and I've never once though about the race of the person I'm blocking. In fact, I don't even believe that the IP space being blocked necessarily represents attacks coming from inside that IP space, it could just be exploited systems being used as jump boxes by attackers elsewhere. From my perspective, it doesn't matter, I just don't see any reason to allow attackers to access my sites and services from regions I don't have any reason to serve.
Maybe come up with a better analysis than jumping to "she's racist"? It just makes you sound dumb.
No.
I just used to read her blog.
Now she can go to hell with her racist discrimination.
Easy for you to speak like you do until you personally get in a situation where you get discriminated for something like your origin.
That's even worse than being discriminated for skin color.
And again, that's very stupid of you to think that people from "good" country won't exploit your site or that all people from "bad" country only come to your site to exploit it.
You are as disgusting as she is.