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Old September 25th 04, 08:25 AM
George Ruch
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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.


The point you seem to have missed is that the blocked networks referenced
in the article Are Not To Be Trusted. In most cases any mail and web
traffic hosted on them is Block On Sight.

Blocking these networks should _not_ prevent overseas military personnel
from using their on-base .mil addresses for both registration and voting.

| George Ruch
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