Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The Pentagon is blocking bandwidth-intensive sites

The Pentagon banned from Monday, March 14, access to several of its employees particularly popular sites like YouTube, eBay and MTV. When someone tries to connect to a computer workstation in the Department of Defense, a message "blocked site" appears in red. According to CNN, quoting a Pentagon official, this "temporary", aims "to ensure that bandwidth is available for U.S.

military operations, which helps authorities japanese after the tsunami. In total, thirteen sites were blocked, video, like Youtube or Metacafe, commercial, such as eBay and Amazon, or social network MySpace.

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