Iran blocks internet access again
The Iranian government has yet again blocked all encrypted international websites outside of Iran that depend on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol ahead of parliamentary elections in that country.
The latest web censorship affected Email, proxies and all the secure connections that depend on the SSL protocol, which display addresses beginning with "https." Last week, more than 30m Iranian internet users were unable to access their e-mail accounts, including Gmail and Microsoft's hotmail.
Iranian internet traffic returned to back to normalcy a few days later. The latest operation has also made Virtual Private Networks (VPN) inaccessible, according to Reuters. Iranians use VPN software to bypass the country's censorship efforts.
