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Github, OneDrive, Dropbox Blocked In Turkey To Kill Email Leaks
ValueWalk
Turkey is notoriously known for blocking Internet services, with an aim of controlling what citizens can read about its government online. A few months ago, the country blocked WikiLeaks after a leak of emails from Turkey’s ruling political party. Then …
Google Drive, Dropbox, Github Blocked in TurkeyiTech Post
Turkey reportedly blocks Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHubThe Next Web
Interview: RedHack, the Hacktivists Who Forced Turkey to Censor the Cloud
The Daily Dot
In their 20 years of operation, the hacktivist group RedHack has pulled off many high-profile breaches, such as leaking documents from Turkish National Police, penetrating the Turkish army’s Commando Brigade, wiping out electricity bills in protest of
Turkey reportedly blocked cloud storage services including Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft’s OneDrive, as well as code hosting service GitHub on Saturday, according to Turkey Blocks. The government is believed to have done so in a bid to suppress the leak of emails belonging to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Berat Albayrak, who is the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The move to block these services, reported by censorship monitoring group Turkey Blocks, is likely a means to stop people from hosting the email dumps on their accounts and making it more widely available. The 17GB leak,…
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