Try to go to georgewbush.com, and if your browser says you’re not American, then:
Great multilateralist stance, there. :rolleyes:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65508,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Indeed, I can’t access the site.
By the way, what’s the point of blocking access from foreign countries? For all they know I could be an american expatriate.
And even if there weren’t any american expatriate, still, what would be the point? Sparing bandwidth?
I wondered what was going on. I wanted to see that ‘Wolves’ commercial, but was unable to get to the site. I had to make due with the parody instead.
Security. Don’t need those Chinese hacker-hordes having at the site, you know.
If the Bush campaign team is worried about sucking up IT resources, then they should really stop sending me spam. No matter how many times I try to block the damn domain, the stuff gets through.
Can people in the US acess it ? I couldn’t. Well I hope this costs him some expatriate votes !! 
(doubt it…)
hhmm… on second thought… if they don’t block foreign acess… the server would be crashed either by the amount of people trying to acess from abroad… or more likely a huge number of hackers more than willing to crash the Bush site. Bush ain’t to popular out of the US afterall.
We were all sitting around when this commercial came on. I had never seen it up until that point. One of my buddies quickley told everyone to shhhh and watch. I didn’t see what was so special about it. What’s with the hype?
quickly*
An ‘edit post’ option would be grand!
I can get there, and I’m not in the US.
I get the error message from the OP too (accessing from the IP space of Germany’s largest ISP).
Looks strange to me - if they really wanted to block crackers they would do so at the firewall level (not letting packets from certain IP address ranges through), not at the web server level (accepting packets from all comers but serving an error page to locations they don’t like). The last-mentioned method does not prevent security vulnerabilities (if any) of the web server software being exploited.
Can’t they even employ clueful people?
…I’ve never been able to get onto www.georgewbush.com …
I even posted in General Questions about it a while ago…
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=271072&highlight=georgewbush.com
…but I never got an Access Denied message before today…thats acutally further than I’ve ever gotten before!
L337 H4x0rz abound, it seems.
I’m sure a dedicated hacker could spoof their IP, or use a US-based proxy.
So, in response to a foreign threat, the Bush website responds in a blundering, unintelligent, ham-fisted fashion that gets everybody’s back up.
Isn’t it beautifully analogous?
Ya. That is what gets your ‘back up’. There you were, all even-minded about the man, but bam!, he switches webhosts, increases security, and that was the last straw.
:rolleyes:
It’s certainly increased security. It’s like making air travel safer, by not allowing anybody to board the planes.
More like not allowing international flights to a domestic airport.
I suspect you might have omitted to read the final paragraph of my light-hearted post. However, in case you did read it, but failed to understand it, here’s a dictionary definition for the word analogous.
Analogy or not, this does not increase security in any significant way. They’re just stopping us foreigners from viewing the content, not from communicating with the web server. Also, even if they were, it’s a relatively simple matter to disguise where you’re from.
American expat and I can not access from china