dolabriform
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It seems that the firewall on the site blocks people outside the UK 
East Coast Pirates 2020
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Koeketiene
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It seems that the firewall on the site blocks people outside the UK
A hard Brexit - even on the internet
nortada
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Yes and got.
Not the most friendly response.
Clearly all attacks originate from overseas - or Essex
Suppose I could use VPN but really can't be bothered.
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nortada
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A hard Brexit - even on the internet
Sometimes it is good to be a Portuguese resident - even if I am barred from a home country site..
Freedom of Movement anybody
?Might have to set up a Pirates Weekend at Culatra, (6 miles from Faro airport) - all welcome but unless Boris' air-bridge works, it may involve 2 weeks quarantine on your return to Blighty - time to lose that sun tan.
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nortada
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Yes and got.
Not the most friendly response.
Clearly all attacks originate from overseas - or Essex
Suppose I could use VPN but really can't be bothered.
I lied, using a very basic free VPN , I have just accessed the site so not very protected.
One of the ironies of human nature is that hackers show much more interest in protected sites than open sites.
ps I am not a hacker.
PaulRainbow
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I lied, using a very basic free VPN , I have just accessed the site so not very protected.
One of the ironies of human nature is that hackers show much more interest in protected sites than open sites.
ps I am not a hacker.
Or, i allowed access to people from Portugal
We get 500-600 hacking attempts most days, almost all from outside of the UK, the non-uk firewall block stops them before they get to the site. It's not impossible to get past that first block, but there are several others in place too.
We hadn't expected any non-uk traffic, if it's a problem for people we will review the situation. If anyone else is outside the UK, PM me with your location and i'll sort it.
nortada
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Or, i allowed access to people from Portugal
We get 500-600 hacking attempts most days, almost all from outside of the UK, the non-uk firewall block stops them before they get to the site. It's not impossible to get past that first block, but there are several others in place too.
We hadn't expected any non-uk traffic, if it's a problem for people we will review the situation. If anyone else is outside the UK, PM me with your location and i'll sort it.
Nothing to sort, I was one of those discrete hackers. ?
Discrete hackers = those who look but don’t fiddle. Unless you are looking for them; not always easy to identify.
For the past 6 years or so I have administered a site/forum.
Initially, we were ‘protected’ and were continually hacked and sabotaged but when we completely freed up the site - all of our problems went away.
Question, why do you secure your site
PaulRainbow
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Nothing to sort, I was one of those discrete hackers. ?
Discrete hackers = those who look but don’t fiddle. Unless you are looking for them; not always easy to identify.
For the past 6 years or so I have administered a site/forum.
Initially, we were ‘protected’ and were continually hacked and sabotaged but when we completely freed up the site - all of our problems went away.
Question, why do you secure your site
If we didn't, there wouldn't be a site.
I tried your no protection method on my business site. A brute force password attack allowed someone to access the site backend, they changed passwords and used email addresses for sending spam, which led to all email accounts being frozen. My business site has nothing of value on it, no customer data or financial stuff, all there is can be seen by the public, it still gets targetted every day, mostly by bots just randomly attacking every site they can find.
In the past 24 hours my business site has had 78 attacks, the ECC site had 415, both figures will go up later, the the US wakes up.
Habebty
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That‘s nice, well done. Saw the super soakers which are mandatory, but instructions for the gas powered potato cannon are missingHi All
Due to the almost daily changing status of what we can and can't do, to make it easy to have the relevant information in one place East Coast Cruising have kindly agreed to host an event page.
As with last year, I'm going to 'announce' event in multiple places, so it also makes it much easier for me to just say 'click here for details' ( as I'm a lazy bugger )
Here's the link to the page:
East Coast Pirates : East Coast Cruising
If / when ever anything changes I'll update the page and also post here, there, and everywhere
Yo ho ho and all that
David
nortada
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As a simple free VPN got around access to your site from overseas and our open site (which is based in the US) functions well without any extra protection, probably better to leave it there.
Further discussion (thread drift), may only generate extra unwanted interest in ECC.
Leave sleeping dogs lie and all that.
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PaulRainbow
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Your VPN may, or may not, have spoofed your location, but as i revised the firewall at 08:50 this morning (after your 2 attempts to view the site at 08:13), to allow visitors from Portugal, we don't know for sure. It makes little difference either way, all the country check does is to keep foreign hackers a little futher away from the site. If they can't see it, they can't hack it.
As previously said, anyone else overseas being blocked by the firewall, drop me a PM. In any event, i'll have words with the team with a view to making some adjustments so people don't get inconvenienced.