Bush web site blocks foreigners in cyber fear

THE GEORGE W.BUSH campaign site that apparently suffered a denial of service attack earlier this week has blocked foreign access to the web site.

As we reported yesterday, his election site was hit after what could have been a cyber attack. Despite saying at the time the attack was "no big deal", immediately after the attack the Bush campaign team decided restrict access to the site from "certain foreign countries".

However, if you use the IP numbers rather than the domain name, you can see it from Blightyland et al - here. D'oh.

Now we would expect these certain countries to be those who might have an axe to grind against the prez and have a vested interest in sinking his campaign, Iran, North Korea for example. However, it turns out that one of the countries that has been denied access to the site is "special relationship" kingdom, Great Britain.

Another country blacklisted is Australia, whose PM risked his political career by keeping troops in Iraq at the request of the Bush administration and still managed to win a recent election.

Canada is OK as far as the Bush administration is concerned, no anti-Republican hackers there.

Bush's campaign site is running Microsoft product, however rather than looking across the waves for crackers wouldn't it be a little better to look closer to home?

In a country that is polarised because of next week's election, aren't there a lot of crackers over there that might be more interested than the Limeys? µ