Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident

Posted: 2012/03/02 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Stats / reports

A “human error” carried out by the police resulted in thousands of websites being completely blocked at the DNS level yesterday. Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which persisted for several hours.

Much more:
http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/

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