Sky’s Court Ordered Piracy Filter Blocks TorrentFreak
Found on TorrentFreak on Saturday, 10 August 2013
As it turns out blocked sites can easily exploit the system and add new IP-addresses to Sky’s blocklist. As a result TorrentFreak has been rendered inaccessible to the ISP’s four million customers.
This essentially means that EZTV, or any other blocked site, has the power to render entire websites inaccessible to Sky subscribers. Luckily we were the target and not Google.
It’s expected that after realizing how vulnerable to exploits their blocking system is, Sky will soon correct their mistake.
Let's autoblock the IP address which the nameserver under the control of a webmaster returns. What could possibly go wrong? A lot obviously. If Sky blocks all traffic to such an IP (and not just port 80/443) and EZTV would simply add the IP for the default Sky nameserver he could take down practically everything for Sky customers thanks to failing DNS resolutions.