<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Totally agree with <span style="color: black;">Grzegorz,</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><span>IMO we should avoid this kind of situations, there should be filters for this kind of probes and maybe, if the goal is farm credits, remove the credits <span>obtained by these probes to prevent these situations from proliferating.</span></span><br></span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"></span></div><div><br></div><div>kix</div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_quote">
On Monday, February 5th, 2024 at 22:05, Ponikierski, Grzegorz via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">I reported the problem in March 2022 but without good solution :/</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2022-March/004961.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2022-March/004961.html</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Filtering out all software probes is not a solution because many of them are good and useful. We should have filters to filter out probes which are useless and are deployed only for
farming purposes and here we have totally such case.</span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, 5 February 2024 at 18:54<br>
<b>To: </b>Ben Cartwright-Cox via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [atlas] Possible software probe "farming" on AS47583</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">seems silly, as all one has to do to get a jillion credits is asl on the</p>
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