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by bigiain 2983 days ago
The Verge is reporting Russia has blocked all their hosting IP addresses. Where by "their" I mean AWS IP addresses they might use. only 15 mullion of them. No biggie, right?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246150/telegram-russia-...

I wonder if there's some low level network tech who knew _exactly_ what he was doing when his bosses bosses boss _demanded_ to know every IP address Telegram's hosting company used, and just happily handed over a bunch of /15s and went to buy popcorn? (That's what _I_ would have done...)