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(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Geo Fencing

(JUNE-2024)

For months, the website of the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been inaccessible from outside of India.

The ECI’s Home Page, Voter Registration Portal, and Right to Information Portal are among the geo fenced sites.
However, access to the results portal, which provides the results of every survey the ECI conducts, is still available.
Voters who are presently abroad are notable to access their personal voter registration information.

Geo fencing is a “security by obscurity” technique that makes websites completely inaccessible, allowing website owners to avoid the most direct types of cyber attacks from overseas.
Search engines a releasable to index and display searched pages in results when there is geofencing in place.
Conversely, sincere security researchers are likewise impeded from pointing out flaws when they investigate foreign websites.

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