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Story: US blocks overseas ISPs from voting site
Posted by: Flarg (Wednesday 22 September 2004, 1:06 AM)
"The goal is to make it more difficult for hackers to deface and/or hijack the website," said Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke.
What a load of crap.
It's pretty easy to allow access to the HTTP & HTTPS ports and still maintain a very secure website by blocking access to all other ports.
Unless you have some wacky scripting on the site, this level of security is trivial.
Blocking by IP number isn't a good security solution, because the hackers can always find another IP address to attack from.
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