[im] turkeyblocks.org: Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive blocked in Turkey

[nettime's_luftmensch]

https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/08/google-drive-dropbox-blocked-in-turkey

Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud services blocked 
in Turkey following leaks

TURKEY has blocked access to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and
partially restricted Google Drive cloud file sharing services
popular on mobile phones as well as in education, business,
legal and press industries, following the leak of a set of
private emails allegedly belonging to Minister of Energy and
Natural Resources Berat Albayrak who is also the son-in-law
of President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan by hacktivist
group Redhack.

At the time of writing, Saturday 8 October, both Google Drive
and Dropbox services were issuing SSL errors, indicating
intercepted traffic at the national or ISP level.

Microsoft OneDrive was also subsequently blocked off throughout Turkey.

Affected ISPs include TTNet, UyduNet and Turkcell. Foreign
visitors in Turkey using roaming mobile data are still able
to access the services because their data is tunnelled to the
country of origin.

Dropbox Inc, a privately held company whose board of
directors includes former United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, has not yet commented on the block. Google
Drive is a Google service that also integrates with other
platforms -- the loss of access may therefore have a knock-on
impact on third-party products.

Another site, the GitHub Open Source developer portal, relied
on by many technology systems and startups, was blocked the
following morning:

The blocks are expected to heavily impact Google users and
Dropbox Inc. customers who use the respective mobile
applications, which runs on Android, iPhone as well as
desktop computers, to archive their photos, share business
documents and sign contracts.

The move to block the world's most popular cloud services
comes amidst growing calls in Turkey to build local versions
of popular social media services -- in July, far-right Turks
called for the creation of a nationalised Turkish Twitter
alternative to replace the US-based company's services.


While Dropbox is entirely blocked, Google Drive is still
accessible to existing users -- possibly because Google shares
its business cloud hosting infrastructure and servers between
Drive and it's primary services including search.