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Those projects are always given to the lowest bidder, not the
best (see ACA).<br>
( Or the "friendliest" depending if the requirements are
spelling out the name of the highest donator of which ever party is
in power =D )<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-10-06 16:17, Mike Hammett
wrote:<br>
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that can't be sourced somewhere else, at least not trivially.
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<div>How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about
(voter registration, unemployment registration, web sites
announced in a big way, causing surges in traffic, etc.) have
a CDN offloading the low-hanging fruit?</div>
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<div>I know that processing a voter registration is far more
intensive than serving up static images, but surely a CDN
taking the low hanging fruit would help to some degree. I'm
assuming most of the people running these sites are clueless
and haven't looked at this, but maybe they have.<br>
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</b>"Sean Donelan" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sean@donelan.com"><sean@donelan.com></a><br>
<b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org">nanog@nanog.org</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:51:39 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Florida: Voter registration website
overwhelmed at deadline<br>
<br>
<br>
Every election has problems. Most of the time, those
problems aren't <br>
noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure,
besides the <br>
actual voting itself.<br>
<br>
It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems
having trouble <br>
with the load.<br>
<br>
Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to
fix glitches.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7">https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7</a><br>
<br>
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency warned <br>
elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks
could disrupt <br>
their systems during the run-up to the election. They
particularly noted <br>
“distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a
computer system <br>
with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the
system becomes <br>
inaccessible to legitimate users.<br>
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