That sucks. Do you have a hitchhiker’s thumb at all? (Slight or even 90 deg bend in thumb)
Here’s hoping I got the hand joint genes from the side of my family that lived to be 95-96 and were still building barns, and not the side that had gout and died in their 60s.
The attacker can just be smarter and use various ASNs + out-proxies for their backend.
My background is small-world network in distributed systems and anti-censorship software like Hyphanet. If the goal is to evict/lessen the purview of the metadata harvesting nodes then some version of web-of-trust + proof of work could be implemented.
Kops like you…