Rapid Fire
Geofencing
- 23 Apr 2024
- 1 min read
The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s website has been blocked outside India for months for security reasons.
- The geofenced sites include the ECI’s Home Page, its Voter registration portal, and its Right to Information portal.
- But, the results portal, which reports the outcome of all polls the ECI administers, remains accessible.
Geofencing:
- Geofencing means “security by obscurity” measure, which allows those running websites to evade the most direct forms of cyber attacks from abroad by being fully inaccessible.
- Geofencing makes search engines less effective at indexing searched pages and turning them up in results.
- On the other side, good-faith security researchers are also prevented from flagging vulnerabilities while probing sites from abroad.
