Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source (among others):
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/17/une-erreur-bloque-l-acces-a-...
This is the more detailed writeup that Le Monde cribbed from:
http://www.nextinpact.com/news/101786-google-fr-bloque-pour-apologie-terrori...
and it's hilarious, even in translation.
Orange blames "human error". Indeed.
- d.
On 17 October 2016 at 21:54, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source (among others):
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/17/une-erreur- bloque-l-acces-a-google-pour-les-clients-d-orange_5014900_4408996.html
-- geni
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:54 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source (among others):
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/17/une-erreur-bloque-l-acces-a-...
They also added Google to the list..?
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/frances-block-of-google-for-terrorism-melts-go...
Workaround: use the Google free DNS.
That is one way to force everyone to learn how to work around service providers blocking access to terrorist websites.
btw, I checked out the traffic from France over the past 30 days and I don't see an obvious drop, so this doesn't seem to have caused a real drop.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:32 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:54 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source (among others):
bloque-l-acces-a-google-pour-les-clients-d-orange_5014900_4408996.html
They also added Google to the list..?
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/frances-block-of-google-for- terrorism-melts-govt-server-439591
Workaround: use the Google free DNS.
That is one way to force everyone to learn how to work around service providers blocking access to terrorist websites.
-- John Vandenberg
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