Feb

26

Pakistan Breaks YouTube

Filed Under Video Sharing Sites

YouTube Down due to Pakistani GovernmentYouTube went down for nearly two hours recently due to the Pakistani government’s move to block the video sharing site from its citizens. But the outage extended far beyond Pakistan’s borders to the U.S., Germany, China, Russia, Australia, and the U.K.

Upon taking offense to content they deemed insulting to Islam, the Pakistani government ordered PCCW, the main ISP in the country, to block the whole site. PCCW went about this task by by hijacking a YouTube web server address.

Because they were able to hijack the server address and didn’t simply block the site, other countries were affected as well.

Upon discovering the source of the problem, YouTube was able to convince PCCW to cease the hijack.

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