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I need to put together a small brief about the weaknesses behind limiting content to specific countries based on IP address.
Besides using proxy server located in another country, can you think of another way to circumvent such a system?
Basically, any solution that uses an intermediary is a proxy. Period.
All the ‘surf anonymously’ sites are proxies, even if they use their own software.
You can use SSH and tunneling, but that is, in effect, a proxy as well, just a tunneled one. Same with VPN.
The only thing that doesn’t require a proxy is source address spoofing, and that only works with one-way attacks, because no return data will be able to get to you.
Also, consider that Geo-Locating is not 100% accurate. I have IP addresses in Canada that show up as US addresses, and I’ve had US addresses that show up as Canada. I’m sure this is more common in other parts of the world.