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  • There is no other reasonable explanation for his miscasting of the entire effort, and memory-blackholing of the US source of the airlift yes, there were Allied bit players.

    Obama: Oh, what’s another lie… 2010

  • How will blackholing IP addresses that are temporarily employed by spammers accomplish anything except for turning the Internet into a swiss-cheese network where huge swaths of arbitrary IP-space are off-limits because someone, somewhere once used a network address (or forged it) to send some spam?

    Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Unfortunately blackholing the entire US isn't an option (you'd lose slashdot for a start).

    Slashdot 2009

  • 4 The action of rejecting packets without notifying their source is sometimes referred to as ‘blackholing’ packets.

    DPI: simplified and demystified 2009

  • 4 The action of rejecting packets without notifying their source is sometimes referred to as ‘blackholing’ packets.

    DPI: simplified and demystified 2009

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