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George Bush's official website no longer accessible outside US...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3958665.stm

How very odd...
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I noticed that yesterday. I wondered whether it was someone at our ISP playing games!
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WTF?
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hallucienate wrote:WTF?
What? Why was I looking at georgewbush.com? There was a clicky to it on the landoverbaptist website. I assumed it would be (like landoverbaptist) a spoof site, but apparently not.
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you can if you go to:

www.the-cloak.com

then enter www.georgebush.com
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CellThree wrote:you can if you go to:

www.the-cloak.com

then enter www.georgebush.com
or even www.georgewbush.com ;)

at risk of filling the whitehouse's http referrer logs and bringing down the wrath of the cia & fbi, clicky
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b b b b b but why did they do it?
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/27/bushwhacked/
The official Bush re-election website - which blocked access to most of the world outside the US this week - is still visible to Canadians.

We don't know if it's fears about future attacks by hackers, concerns about keeping bandwidth costs to a minimum or an aggressive response to pinko UK broadsheet The Guardian's recent shameful pro-Kerry political lobbying efforts in Ohio which are behind moves that have rendered GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible to world + dog. Or, to be strictly accurate, most of the world bar the US and Canada which is presumably considered bandwidth-friendly, hacker-free and mercifully bereft of pinko broadsheets.
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Quiff Boy wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/27/bushwhacked/
The official Bush re-election website - which blocked access to most of the world outside the US this week - is still visible to Canadians.

We don't know if it's fears about future attacks by hackers, concerns about keeping bandwidth costs to a minimum or an aggressive response to pinko UK broadsheet The Guardian's recent shameful pro-Kerry political lobbying efforts in Ohio which are behind moves that have rendered GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible to world + dog. Or, to be strictly accurate, most of the world bar the US and Canada which is presumably considered bandwidth-friendly, hacker-free and mercifully bereft of pinko broadsheets.
which is nothing but pure speculation :roll: :roll:
How many millions did the bush campaign raise? surely enough to host a website?
Do they really think that blocking non-US traffic is gonna stop hackers?
and was the Guardian's effort really that effective? :roll: :roll:
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hallucienate wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/27/bushwhacked/
The official Bush re-election website - which blocked access to most of the world outside the US this week - is still visible to Canadians.

We don't know if it's fears about future attacks by hackers, concerns about keeping bandwidth costs to a minimum or an aggressive response to pinko UK broadsheet The Guardian's recent shameful pro-Kerry political lobbying efforts in Ohio which are behind moves that have rendered GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible to world + dog. Or, to be strictly accurate, most of the world bar the US and Canada which is presumably considered bandwidth-friendly, hacker-free and mercifully bereft of pinko broadsheets.
which is nothing but pure speculation :roll: :roll:
How many millions did the bush campaign raise? surely enough to host a website?
Do they really think that blocking non-US traffic is gonna stop hackers?
and was the Guardian's effort really that effective? :roll: :roll:
yep, as the saying goes: "none of the above", i suspect :roll:
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hallucienate wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/27/bushwhacked/
The official Bush re-election website - which blocked access to most of the world outside the US this week - is still visible to Canadians.

We don't know if it's fears about future attacks by hackers, concerns about keeping bandwidth costs to a minimum or an aggressive response to pinko UK broadsheet The Guardian's recent shameful pro-Kerry political lobbying efforts in Ohio which are behind moves that have rendered GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible to world + dog. Or, to be strictly accurate, most of the world bar the US and Canada which is presumably considered bandwidth-friendly, hacker-free and mercifully bereft of pinko broadsheets.
which is nothing but pure speculation :roll: :roll:
How many millions did the bush campaign raise? surely enough to host a website?
Do they really think that blocking non-US traffic is gonna stop hackers?
and was the Guardian's effort really that effective? :roll: :roll:
Which again proves the intelligence of this lot :roll:
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Hojyuu-obi wrote:
hallucienate wrote:
which is nothing but pure speculation :roll: :roll:
How many millions did the bush campaign raise? surely enough to host a website?
Do they really think that blocking non-US traffic is gonna stop hackers?
and was the Guardian's effort really that effective? :roll: :roll:
Which again proves the intelligence of this lot :roll:
who's that? elReg or Dubya?
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My response merely went out to this sentence: "Do they really think that blocking non-US traffic is gonna stop hackers?" so the anwer to your question would be: whoever decided to block non-US traffic to the website (I imagine it's not Mr Walker Bush himself :lol: )
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