How Iran S Efforts To Censor Porn Led To Internet Outage In Distant Hong Kong Techworm
Iran also tried to ban porn using similar tactics. Iran’s premier Internet watchdog was apparently acting on the instructions of government to block porn access to Iranian citizen. However, in its zeal to spoof the DNS of porn websites caused mayhem across Hong Kong, Russia, and other Eastern European countries. Iran’s networks are a major routing center for the region, and it’s easy for malicious or false BGP data to spread from Iran’s sources....