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Old September 23rd 04, 08:57 PM
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Protecting their website? Is this like cutting down all the trees to
prevent forest fires?

Sending spam is easy. Faking email addresses is easy. Hacking website
is an order of magnitude harder. Most hacks are done by "social
engineering" the DNS to a new address. One would thing for the
fvap.gov, this could be controlled.

George Ruch wrote in message . ..
) wrote:

The DOD has locked out the fvap.gov website in an attempt to stop
military votes. However, you can get the same information mirrored
he

http://www.overseasvote2004.com/

Looks like Rummy wants democracy everwhere but the USA. More info
he
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39167419,00.htm


Per the above article,
quote
Wanadoo and BT have both been hit by the blockade, according to sources
familiar with the situation, and early reports have claimed that Telefonica
and China Telecom are also hit.
/quote

If you look the amount of spam, trojans, etc. coming from these domains is
legend. Look into the conversations at net.admin.net-abuse.email and the
notices in net.admin.net-abuse.bulletins for details. The domains listed
in the article and their associated address ranges are, IIRC, block on
sight.

In short, they're protecting their network.

| George Ruch
| "Just the facts, ma'am"