XMPP Service Operators - 2025-05-10

  1. Kris

    Those AI scrapers actively circumvent region blocking. I have seen that live on my machine

  2. Kris

    and there are definitly Chinese XMPP users on western xmpp servers

  3. Kris

    quite a lot of them actually

  4. Kris

    (but admitably some use VPNs)

  5. tom

    I can't imagine these users not using a cpn of some kind. The gfoc is quite aggressive

  6. tom

    The issue is US big tech AI firms renting Chinese servers to launch ddos attacks on the internet taking advantage of the sociopolitical climate in regards to enforcement of laws.

  7. tom

    And then you have the usual background Boise of the internet and botnet c&c servers taking advantage of the same legal enforcement loophole. ✎

  8. tom

    And then you have the usual background noise of the internet and botnet c&c servers taking advantage of the same legal enforcement loophole. ✏

  9. tom

    So far I've had no complaints from legitimate users after blocking China and alibaba ✎

  10. tom

    So far I've had no complaints from legitimate users after blocking China and alibaba cloud ✏

  11. tom

    But automated attacks and server load have gone down substantially

  12. tom

    I'm using the extra capacity gained to tarpit the rest of the attacks that do get through

  13. tom

    Another interesting note is that most of these attacks are through legacy-ip. Not all but most. Meanwhile more then 60% of legitimate users are on IPv6