Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

This is the same state that spend $60M-ish to revamp their entire
unemployment system 6 years ago, only to have it completely collapse this
year when 'rona landed.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:19 PM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> 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.
>
>
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> *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
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>
> 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.