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Removal of Non US IP Addresses

October 24, 2012

Although it may be a moot issue, due to exploits and such, we have decided to restrict access to our Corporate Site and Wiki to the United States. We have noticed an increased volume of demand upon our server from China. As we all know China has begun a cyberwar against the United States. Accordingly, we have begun to ramp up our backups and created specialized scripting to simply block enormous ranges of IP Addresses.

We apologize, in advance, if this impacts you. The reality is this: Foreclosurepedia serves only domestic (United States) clients. As our goal is not readership nor publicity, we find it to be prudent to employ these actions. Granted, IP Spoofing is extremely easy, this will slow down Chinese, Russian and other nefarious nations in their attempt to gleen information from us.

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