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I wonder is those could be related to cyber security measures, not political measures.
by jokoon 7y ago
I wonder is those could be related to cyber security measures, not political measures.
- amiraliakbari 7y agoIt's unlikely. GitHub hasn't banned Iranian IPs or completely closed Iranian users, but just blocked those users' access to their private repositories and Gists.
- red_admiral 7y agoVery unlikely in my opinion - if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard did want to attack something, I doubt they would do it from an IP address in their own country. I'm sure they have a decent botnet or two somewhere else, that's like opsec 101. Similarly, although Crimea specifically is now IP-banned, the rest of the Russian Federation is not. This is exactly what it looks like: a political sanction.
- espeed 7y agoYes, some of it is. See previous thread... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302844