Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Those projects are always given to the lowest bidder, not the best 
(see ACA).
    ( Or the "friendliest" depending if the requirements are spelling 
out the name of the highest donator of which ever party is in power =D )

-----
Alain Hebert                                ahebert () pubnix net
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770     Beaconsfield, Quebec     H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911  http://www.pubnix.net    Fax: 514-990-9443

On 2020-10-06 16:17, Mike Hammett wrote:
> I understand that there is underlying work that can't be sourced 
> somewhere else, at least not trivially.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL><https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb><https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions><https://twitter.com/ICSIL>
> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix><https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange><https://twitter.com/mdwestix>
> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Sean Donelan" <sean () donelan com>
> *To: *nanog () nanog org
> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:51:39 AM
> *Subject: *Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline
>
>
> 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.