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Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline
From: Justin Paine via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:22:58 -0700
no indication of a DoS attack. <https://www.cloudflare.com/> __________________ *Justin Paine* He/Him/His Head of Trust & Safety 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 <https://www.cloudflare.com/> *PGP:* BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D <https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/BBAA6BCE33057FD66452711557B60114DE0B314D> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:51 AM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the actual voting itself. It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble with the load. Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches. https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7 The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes inaccessible to legitimate users.
Current thread:
- Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Justin Paine via NANOG (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Constantine A. Murenin (Oct 07)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Eric Litvin (Oct 07)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Valdis Klētnieks (Oct 09)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Justin Paine via NANOG (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Mike Hammett (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Tom Beecher (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Alain Hebert (Oct 07)
- Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline Sean Donelan (Oct 07)