Re: [113attendees] Can't use US site from EU (Re: US Vaccine Record (QR code for MASS residents))

Use a VPN.

Thanks,
Donald
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 Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
 2386 Panoramic Circle, Apopka, FL 32703 USA
 d3e3e3@gmail.com

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:52 AM Mike Bishop <mbishop@evequefou.be> wrote:
>
> It's not just the EU, though. I've encountered occasional sites who have apparently decided that since essentially all their customers are US-based and a large portion of their attack traffic is from outside the US, they will drop all incoming traffic from outside the US and a few other countries. Makes them annoying to deal with while traveling.
>
> When I've contacted support to complain, one offered to whitelist my particular IP address if it was stable, but all basically shrugged and said "security!"
>
> Sent from Nine
> ________________________________
> From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 11:23 AM
> To: Jared Mauch
> Cc: 113attendees@ietf.org; Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang
> Subject: [113attendees] Can't use US site from EU (Re: US Vaccine Record (QR code for MASS residents))
>
> On 2022-03-25, at 11:00, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> >
> > (aside: I've found there's many US local government sites that must have
> > some local firewalls or something that block the use of services from
> > EU)
>
> This is a really interesting side observation.
>
> How did that happen?
>
> When the European GDPR came out, there were a lot of consultants that saw easy money and offered their services to US organizations for help in handling the (completely overblown) legal risks that might come out of that.
> Instead, many US organizations simply opted not to buy their expensive services but to simply block clients on EU-localized addresses instead.
> (Hint: That blocking does not reduce any legal risk, because I’m still an EU citizen even if I access your services from a “US-localized” IP address.  Maybe it would have been worth to look at GDPR and find out that the underlying rules for data protection after all hadn’t really changed from the status quo ante.)
>
> Result: the greedy consultants came out empty-handed, but at the same time caused a lot of damage by severely hampering the world-wide availability of US services and products.
>
> See the graphics on pages three and five of http://gandalf.fee.urv.cat/professors/AntonioQuesada/Curs1920/Cipolla_laws.pdf
> for some help on the economic theory that applies here.
> Clearly, we are in sector B2 here.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
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