~~ISP~~ 'Security' software vendor blocks news site because 'scary stuff'
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Comodo DNS Blocks TorrentFreak Over "Hacking and Warez " * TorrentFreak
At TorrentFreak, we write about website blocking on a weekly basis, but it's not often that we are the target ourselves. This week we are, as major computer security vendor Comodo has decided to block direct access to our site, claiming that we might offer illegal access to copyrighted software or...
Interestingly, the ‘piracy’ blocklist is not as stringent as the above would suggest. While we replicated the issue, we also checked several other known ‘pirate’ sites including The Pirate Bay, RARBG, GoMovies, and Pubfilm. These could all be accessed through SecureDNS without any warning.
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@RaceProUK
Except Comodo isn't an ISP, they're a security software vendor. And you opt-in to their Secure DNS.But otherwise, panicBasket everywhere!
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@RaceProUK Isn't Comodo a producer of scam "security" products?
The only context in which I heard about them was that their software was useless and opened more vulnerabilities:
Google says Comodo's 'secure' browser isn't safe to use at all
A Google engineer has pointed out that security firm's Comodo suite of tools to stay safe online actually exposes users to possible attacks.
Comodo's 'security' kit installed a lame VNC server on PCs on the sly