Posted: 1/22/2013 9:16:24 AM EDT
I have noticed quite a few comments across the web asking if the website was down. I have found that I cannot access the website from overseas URLs, (i.e. deployed military, goverment sites). I can access the website through a web proxy, but cannot sign in or order due to security concerns. Is there anything you can do to open overseas URLs?
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We have had multiple attempts to hack our site from overseas so we implemented a security program to block certain risky areas what country are you located in ? Hmmm..I'm in MD. Makes sense. It could very well make sense. Your ISP may have some or all of its servers overseas. Or, if you use a proxy server/browser (as many people do), then your surfing could very well be routed through an overseas server first. Reminds me of a friend of mine who bought a website package from 1&1, a website hosting company that advertises heavily in America. He was perplexed because his site was slow, and he was having a heck of a time getting any kind of decent Google rankings, even for long-tail keywords. Little did he know that his website was being hosted on a German server, which can effect both the speed of the website and the way Google views it for ranking purposes. Lots going on with the Internet that isn't always obvious on the surface. As for Atlantic, they had two choices: don't block certain overseas servers and let their site be hacked, or block those servers and make it harder for a small minority of customers to connect to their site. Easy choice. |
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also... what kind of web proxy do you mean?
I ask cos back on one of my ships a bunch of people started using other websites to circumvent the mandated website blocks (i.e. so they could FB Myspace etc). Gave the ship a nasty virus. Then the admins had enough of it and actually *read* the router logs searching for known proxy hack sites. Anyone caught having gone to such a site received a counseling report and a 1-week suspension from the computer (whichever took longer to complete). |
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also... what kind of web proxy do you mean? I ask cos back on one of my ships a bunch of people started using other websites to circumvent the mandated website blocks (i.e. so they could FB Myspace etc). Gave the ship a nasty virus. Then the admins had enough of it and actually *read* the router logs searching for known proxy hack sites. Anyone caught having gone to such a site received a counseling report and a 1-week suspension from the computer (whichever took longer to complete). A proxy, in the context I used it, is when you use a browser or search engine that specifically hides your own ISP address and makes your surfing anonymous. (Although, nothing you do on the Internet is ever 100% anonymous. If you have the right tools, there are ways to identify even supposedly anonymous surfers.) Your shipmates probably used a proxy search engine, which would indeed allow them to override the permissions set by the ship's systems administrator, and surf anonymously. But using a proxy server itself will not give you a virus. I suspect your shipmates were using a proxy server to visit websites they shouldn't have visited (porn or warez sites, for example), and those websites are where the viruses came from. |