Bush Doesn't Trust Australia?
Marik_Steele
To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Foreign countries banned from website</div> <span style='color:orange'>This thread is the result of a merge of two threads with the same topic, one in Discussions and one in OT. If people's responses to each other seem strange, that's why.</span>
From /. <a href='http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/10/27/1427228.shtml?tid=224&tid=95&tid=219' target='_blank'>here</a>
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Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 27, @11:00AM
from the registered-and-likely-voters dept.
acey72 writes "The BBC News are reporting that George W Bush's <a href='http://www.georgewbush.com/' target='_blank'>re-election website</a> (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3958665.stm' target='_blank'>is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA</a>. <a href='http://www.netcraft.com/' target='_blank'>Netcraft</a> spotted the change on Monday, and have a
<a href='http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/26/bush_campaign_web_site_rejects_nonus_visitors.html' target='_blank'>report</a> on the matter. Oh well, at least <a href='http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html' target='_blank'>John Kerry's site</a> still works for us outlanders." At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site, but Europeans cannot (without going through a U.S. proxy).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm posting this here because:
A) I know we have enough users outside North America that someone can check whether this is true.
B) I figure if I put it in off-topic you guys will start discussing politics soon enough anyway, so I'm starting it in here.
From /. <a href='http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/10/27/1427228.shtml?tid=224&tid=95&tid=219' target='_blank'>here</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 27, @11:00AM
from the registered-and-likely-voters dept.
acey72 writes "The BBC News are reporting that George W Bush's <a href='http://www.georgewbush.com/' target='_blank'>re-election website</a> (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3958665.stm' target='_blank'>is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA</a>. <a href='http://www.netcraft.com/' target='_blank'>Netcraft</a> spotted the change on Monday, and have a
<a href='http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/26/bush_campaign_web_site_rejects_nonus_visitors.html' target='_blank'>report</a> on the matter. Oh well, at least <a href='http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html' target='_blank'>John Kerry's site</a> still works for us outlanders." At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site, but Europeans cannot (without going through a U.S. proxy).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm posting this here because:
A) I know we have enough users outside North America that someone can check whether this is true.
B) I figure if I put it in off-topic you guys will start discussing politics soon enough anyway, so I'm starting it in here.
Comments
I'm getting an access denied, rather than cannot be displayed, so its definitely permissions based.
easy way to check, anyone got a US based proxy?
"The site can still be seen using anonymous proxy services that are based in the US. Some web users in Canada also report that they can browse the site."
Bummer for a workmate of mine who is an american citizen.
What am I saying hes probably saved a few minutes of his life by not being able to look at the site <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
However I did successfully access it before Monday and found to my horror that Bush had even made a flash game to undermine Kerry's honesty while appealing to the younger generation.
Underhanded, yes.
Clever, yes.
At all what I expected, hell no!
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Good thing i live in the US, WE RULE
Bush can make Flash games? There's a talent I never knew he had! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
What really bothers me is that I can't look at the <a href='http://www.sho.com/queerduck/' target='_blank'>Queer Duck</a> homepage without going through a U.S. proxy.
<a href='http://proxy.guardster.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/010100A/687474702f7777772e67656f72676577627573682e636f6d2f' target='_blank'>http://proxy.guardster.com/cgi-bin/nph-pro...573682e636f6d2f</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Seems like a good way to try to prevent last minute hacking attempts. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure, because hackers don't know how t use a proxy...
All hackers come from outside the US <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If you open the homepage over its IP Adress everything will work fine.
<a href='http://65.172.163.222/' target='_blank'>http://65.172.163.222/</a>
<a href='https://georgewbush.com' target='_blank'>https://georgewbush.com</a> is also working fine
This type of internet-censorship reminds me to states like china or iran. gg US
What really bothers me is that I can't look at the <a href='http://www.sho.com/queerduck/' target='_blank'>Queer Duck</a> homepage without going through a U.S. proxy. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
rofl @ Queer Duck.
--Scythe--
Uh Hello was anyone paying attention. The technically inclined have already found a way to get to the site. GO Technology! You can't keep us out BOOSH!
I seriously doubt its because they don't want you to see it. There are a multitude of reasons to do this. The number one reason would be to cut down on unneeded bandwidth. With the election under a week away, it wouldn't be "prudent" to have people not able to get on the site.
All hackers come from outside the US <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Nice way to try to discredit my statement by making an outrageous claim. However most hacking attempts DO originate from outside of the US.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->GEORGE W. Bush doesn't trust the outside world to view his US election campaign website, and that includes close ally Australia.
The US President's re-election aides said today it had cut off access to its website from certain foreign countries "for security reasons", but declined to elaborate.
"The measure was taken for security reasons," campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel said.
The President's campaign office said earlier it had received telephone calls about access failures.
Mr Bush's campaign aides would not offer any more details, but last week the site went down for about five hours after a "denial of service" attack.
When the web address "www.georgewbush.com" was typed from NEWS.com.au's office, the following message appeared:
"You are not authorized to view this page. You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied.
"If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please try to contact the website by using any e-mail address or phone number that may be listed on the www.georgebush.com home page."
Obviously, without access to the homepage, finding e-mail addresses or phone numbers is impossible, leaving millions of interested users around the world without access.
British website "www.netcraft.com", which analyses Internet traffic to detect fraud and count the most visited sites, said the Bush campaign website had been inaccessible from London, Sydney and Amsterdam since Monday, although Canada was apparently not affected.
The website was down and inaccessible for several hours on Tuesday in what campaign officials said could be the work of hackers.
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So our Glorious Leader supports your Iraq war, and you don't trust us to read your campaign site? Please explain.
<Kerry> ololo u r da windoz l0se u wuv big corporations i wuv littl man go open source wooo! rm -rf /bin/bush/ ololo!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
At least, it was probably something like that...
Apparently they have the internet.
From your understanding..? Where'd you read/make up this?
<img src='http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,3600,391701,00.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
If you haven't been paying attention Bush isn't one of the most popular characters in the world today.