BBC NEWS | Technology | Attack prompts Bush website block

While not an official government web site, this seems all too consistent with current administration information policies. Interestingly, the Bush campaign is able to do this by making use of the exact same service that GPO has just announce plans to use: Akamai EdgeScape.

The policy of trying to stop overseas visitors viewing the site is thought to have been adopted in response to an attack on the georgewbush.com website.

Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign said: “The measure was taken for security reasons.”
He declined to elaborate any further on the blocking policy.

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