TURKEY has blocked access to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and partially restricted Google Drive cloud file sharing services popular on mobile phones as well as in education, business, legal and press industries, following the leak of a set of private emails allegedly belonging to Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Berat Albayrak who is also the son-in-law of President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan by hacktivist group Redhack.
At the time of writing, Saturday 8 October, both Google Drive and Dropbox services were issuing SSL errors, indicating intercepted traffic at the national or ISP level.
Pare ci sia finito in mezzo pure github (che mi pare un segnale peggiore del resto). A parte le considerazioni più ovvie su censure e censurette (separando quindi il concetto del condividere una cosa da quello di dove mettere le proprie) è sempre un buon momento per ricordare che
Bloccare github, dropbox et similia per cercare di evitare un leak, mi sembra un po’ come chiudere le autostrade per impedire la fuga di un uomo a cavallo.