Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by rmc on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:12AM (#3575303)

Maybe http://m.gmail.com ?

If they are blocking https traffic, they are almost certainly intercepting and scanning http traffic (lots of countries do this, e.g. lots of UK ISPs did this to censor wikipedia).

So, even if you were to be able to access gmail over http, you probably don't want to. :)

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by clupprich on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:25AM (#3575332)

What parts of Wikipedia did they censor? Quite interested in that.

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by Skalman on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:55AM (#3575403)

The article Virgin Killer was blocked for four days because of "child pornography".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Sexual_content

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by clupprich on Friday February 10, 2012 @04:20PM (#3577520)

Thanks for the info!

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by joel_ms on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:54AM (#3575401)

I'm guessing it's this case he's referring to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wik...

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by rmc on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:54AM (#3575402)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/08/intern...

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by Elhana on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:49AM (#3575391)

I guess wikileaks, not wikipedia

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Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol by rmc on Friday February 10, 2012 @06:55AM (#3575406)

Nope wikipedia. Over 'Child porn' images

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