They probably got hacked ages ago and it was added at that point. I wouldn't be assuming malice here.
Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
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Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#12I've worked with several kinds of public blocking lists and one thing I learned is that they are all full of false positives. For whatever reason, I would not be surprised if just nobody ever noticed the mistake.
Yeah, that's a given because they're not constructed manually ie. no manual verification. Give them some time to react. My wife complained to me she could not visit a website (I run Pi-Hole on our network, and our mobile devices get routed to it even on external networks). I looked through the logs, figured the offending rule, contacted the maintainer, and they fixed it within a few hours. The issue has been up for o…
Yeah, same here, I run OPNsense and make use of Unbound's blacklist feature to similar (and surprisingly potent!) effect, along with Suricata and Sensei. I have had to manually whitelist some stuff though.
False-positives, things that are good defaults but advanced users should be able to bypass, or just plain unfortunately necessary workarounds are certainly all issues though. I think user available fallbacks can be useful sometimes for that reason. Like at a site using 802.1x auth, set it up so users can append "-noblock" to their login and then it'll change them into a different VLAN which can just point at a different DNS (or alternately Unbound supports views for split-brain DNS).
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#13They are a phishing site
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HWH6z4...
Perhaps they have fixed it in the past 3 weeks, maybe they haven't.
From yesterday, so not fixed -
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rMUgla...
Also love the way it's signed, the persons online profile is "I'm Black Hat SEO Expert" if anyone wants to write any Green policy I guess contact them?
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#14They are a phishing site https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HWH6z4... Perhaps they have fixed it in the past 3 weeks, maybe they haven't. From yesterday, so not fixed - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rMUgla... Also love the way it's signed, the persons online profile is "I'm Black Hat SEO Expert" if anyone wants to write any Green policy I guess contact them?
Hmm, that doesn't look like content the GP would put up intentionally.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#15My trivia league was blocked by Heathrow's airport wifi because of "games/sports". I contacted Boingo, who told me they don't block websites (? okay, so then your client operates a rogue blocklist that uses Boingo headers for the error page -- that's even worse). I also tried contacting some sort of pseudo-government safe browsing list to see if it was their blocklist being used by Heathrow and got no response. The a…
Does UK honor "net neutrality"? If yes, that could be a way to hold them (ISP, whoever it be) accountable.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#16My trivia league was blocked by Heathrow's airport wifi because of "games/sports". I contacted Boingo, who told me they don't block websites (? okay, so then your client operates a rogue blocklist that uses Boingo headers for the error page -- that's even worse). I also tried contacting some sort of pseudo-government safe browsing list to see if it was their blocklist being used by Heathrow and got no response. The a…
My static home IP was blocked by my new energy supplier.
It took almost 4 months to get through to someone who would accept my problem wasn't forgetting my password.
In the end, I was pointed to their third provider and told "sort it out yourself, not our problem". Thankfully that other company had a reasonable-ish appeals process...
...obviously I got relisted in their db a few times but things seem to have calmed down now.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#17My trivia league was blocked by Heathrow's airport wifi because of "games/sports". I contacted Boingo, who told me they don't block websites (? okay, so then your client operates a rogue blocklist that uses Boingo headers for the error page -- that's even worse). I also tried contacting some sort of pseudo-government safe browsing list to see if it was their blocklist being used by Heathrow and got no response. The a…
Does UK honor "net neutrality"? If yes, that could be a way to hold them (ISP, whoever it be) accountable.
Ofcom (the UK’s coms regulator) has just announced a review of net neutrality [1]. Which will have some big companies aiming to give themselves more “flexibility”.
Currently however, providers are bound by EU mandates to treat every packet the same (roughly speaking).
I hope it stays that way.
[1] - https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/ofcom-to-review-uks-net-ne...
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#18They are a phishing site https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HWH6z4... Perhaps they have fixed it in the past 3 weeks, maybe they haven't. From yesterday, so not fixed - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rMUgla... Also love the way it's signed, the persons online profile is "I'm Black Hat SEO Expert" if anyone wants to write any Green policy I guess contact them?
Hmm, that doesn't look like content the GP would put up intentionally.
No, it looks like they have glaring security issues of their website and the site regularly gets used for phishing, spam, etc.
So maybe that only has been an issue for 3 weeks (which is bad enough), but all things considered, it’s possible it’s been like this for years.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#19My trivia league was blocked by Heathrow's airport wifi because of "games/sports". I contacted Boingo, who told me they don't block websites (? okay, so then your client operates a rogue blocklist that uses Boingo headers for the error page -- that's even worse). I also tried contacting some sort of pseudo-government safe browsing list to see if it was their blocklist being used by Heathrow and got no response. The a…
A place I worked blocked hackernews bcs of "hacking". Never had the nerve to try to get it unblocked.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#20It couldn't have been an honest mistake, they must have blocked it for political reasons. Imagine living in this state of paranoia.
Given the last 10 years of political "discourse" and third party election interference calling it "paranoia" seems like a very naive view of the world.
We have literal psycopathic leaders in some positions and people still say to me " but why would they do that to us". Why would power hungry psycopaths hurt us? How do I communicate with this?