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Since it is a government website, I suspect that foreign IP have a strong historical correlation with mischief. Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages
by brudgers 4y ago
Since it is a government website, I suspect that foreign IP have a strong historical correlation with mischief.
Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP’s was probably a best-practice argument.
There’s also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism.
And politically, I suspect there wouldn’t be a lot of pushback to any of it.
But I could be wrong.
- kennend3 4y agoout of interest i tried the states main site https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx works just fine from Canada?
- brudgers 4y agoDoesn’t surprise me that the portal isn’t geofenced because it is likely to be well maintained, monitored, and funded for business reasons. Stare Archeology websites don’t have the same incentives for IT attention…I mean the one here isn’t even very “Web2.0”.