http://www.riskbloggers.com/jimreavis/2008/05/year-of-the-olympic-sized-r4t/ Security Wisdom Ahead of the Curve Fri, 16 May 2008 15:03:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.riskbloggers.com/jimreavis/2008/05/year-of-the-olympic-sized-r4t/#comment-3964 admin Sat, 03 May 2008 07:59:11 +0000 http://www.riskbloggers.com/?p=243#comment-3964 Why bother 'talking' to China at all? Unless you are doing business with Chinese firms, or have significant numbers of customers over there why not just drop them at your border routers/firewalls? All this is is least privilege at the network level. Good news is that there are a ton of public resources for this data, for example countryipblocks.net. Or simply Google "geolocation" and take your pick. Why bother ‘talking’ to China at all? Unless you are doing business with Chinese firms, or have significant numbers of customers over there why not just drop them at your border routers/firewalls? All this is is least privilege at the network level. Good news is that there are a ton of public resources for this data, for example countryipblocks.net. Or simply Google “geolocation” and take your pick.

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