Reports are coming out of Iran that the country is increasingly squeezing Internet access to certain sites, including websites that use the HTTPS protocol. Many tech-savvy users who were able to circumvent restrictions to gain access to an unfettered Internet have found their usual methods are no longer effective. Iran’s National Internet — a countrywide firewall that is meant to block out websites undesirable to the government — is the widely suspected culprit.
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Internet Access Severely Curbed in Iran
Posted by: Erika Morphy February 10, 2012 03:32 PMReports are coming out of Iran that the country is increasingly squeezing Internet access to certain sites, including websites that use the HTTPS protocol. Many tech-savvy users who were able to circumvent restrictions to gain access to an unfettered Internet have found their usual methods are no longer effective. Iran’s National Internet — a countrywide firewall that is meant to block out websites undesirable to the government — is the widely suspected culprit.