Bush Bans Foreigners

“The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign’s Internet address for six hours last week, according to computer security experts.

Since midnight on Monday, no one outside the United States except people in Canada could see the site, said Rich Miller, a security analyst for Netcraft, a Web site monitoring firm in Bath, England. Internet users from other countries instead see a white page featuring the message: “Access denied: You don’t have permission to access www.georgewbush.com on this server.”

The move happened one week after the Bush-Cheney and Republican National Committee sites were unavailable for almost six hours. Security experts said the outage probably was the result of a “distributed denial-of-service attack,” in which hackers use tens of thousands of hijacked computers to overwhelm Web sites by flooding them with bursts of digital data.

The Bush campaign did not return repeated calls for comment. (…)” — [Source: ‘Bush Web Site Bars Overseas Visitors’ By Brian Krebs @ Washington Post]

Don’t feel bad, folks, even Americans can’t access Dubya without being screened, even if we CAN see that disgrace of a website… not that we want to or anything. *gag* I wish they’d block us, as well…