Iran's internet chokepoint caught fire, caused outages

A datacenter fire resulted in internet outages across Iran for around three hours last Friday, and it appears the cause was the nation's surveillance apparatus. The fire took place at a building belonging to the Telecom Infrastructure Company (TIC) – the only reseller of connectivity to Iranian internet service providers. The …

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authoritartians of all lands unite...

Iran and Russia a marriage of convenience

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Re: authoritartians of all lands unite...

... Canada, Australia, Austria, ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch

Well, there’s a few to choose from I guess

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Re: Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch

Iranians are overwhelmingly selfless. I could drop you by parachute anywhere over Iran and they would provide for you, at their own expense, and organize and pay for the return flight themselves. Even the poorest would make sacrifices to help you.

The (current) Iranian leadership would like nothing more than to isolate its cosmopolitan population. The Iranians always manage to bring real reformers to power. Unfortunately, the U.S. then comes along and bombs away until the muftis are back in power. Coincidentally, it is precisely those who shout "Death to the USA!" the loudest, who are playing for the same.

[Potemkine!]

So they got a firewall problem?

Is the exit this way?

[teknopaul]

Banning VPN

That's going to make working from home a lot harder. It's going to make it impossible for many foreigners to work from Iran. Either the implement that policy with bias / ineffectually or the country will take a hit from that.

It's amazing how short sighted politicians can be.

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Re: Banning VPN

"It's going to make it impossible for many foreigners to work from Iran."

Do you think there is a large number of foreign VPN-dependant knowledge workers in Iran???

[TimMaher]

Rostelecom

Route through Russia to avoid problems in Ukraine? Good luck with that then.

[Anonymous Coward]

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How are the mullahs going to watch gay pornography now?

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Re: Rostelecom

They have catholic churches in Iran. See St. Joseph's Cathedral, for instance. ;-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Rostelecom

Watch porn, not diddle kids.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Rostelecom

if you shave any mullah's beard you'll find written on his chin: made by the BBC

[markrand]

Re: Rostelecom

What did Brown Boveri have to do with it?