This morning I wanted to write a short post on a phishing site, which was also poorly made, but which using IPFS could be a little more interesting than the others.
The site is an attack (targeted or not I don’t know) against some company that wants to become a supplier to the US government.
The URL is: hxxps://gsa.gov.bid-network-integration-authenticate.sapt[.]sa
Matrix had identified the threat in the morning
When I tried to access the content on IPFS from my laboratory network (in Italy) I was in for a surprise: access to the Cloudflare gateway to IPFS is blocked by Italian providers with the explanation that it contains child pornography!
I can understand someone’s difficulty in understanding the technology, I can understand the lack of funds to invest in research, but censoring an emerging technology like this is truly third world country!
Obviously using TOR the powerful censorship is avoided in a minute and I can finally access.
Let’s put aside the attack that sucks and doesn’t even work at the moment, but what approach is it to block an entire world because you don’t understand it? I know that in Italy there are many nostalgic for that idiot Mussolini, but here it seems that someone is even nostalgic for the Middle Ages!
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