Have no ability to confirm this wasn’t a security false-positive, but demonstrates danger of carrier-level DPI under government control.https://twitter.com/matalaz/status/915541806426845186 …
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Seems this is carrier infrastructure; it's unclear if this is directly under government control or (more likely) they were told to do this.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
No real difference between this and e.g. court-ordered child porn or piracy site takedowns, though. We know govts order ISPs to block sites.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
I mean, when I lived in Ireland thepiratebay was blocked by my ISP (at least via their primary domain/IP).
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Replying to @marcan42 @SwiftOnSecurity
They were sued to do that, and only do blocking at the DNS level. (if you use their DNS servers) For me, it's a reminder to fix DNS settings on a new connection.
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Replying to @orpach @SwiftOnSecurity
Nope, wasn't DNS. I wasn't using their DNS server. It was IP based.
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Replying to @marcan42 @SwiftOnSecurity
oh. What ISP were you on? My last two ISPs only did it in DNS. Virgin media doesn't even properly block it anymore, just redirects you to their homepage with a cert error.
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UPC (at the time).
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