The executive said a change in IT service providers led to illegal access to Elon Musk’s website
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflarehe spoke about the first time after the temporary return of Xalready Twitter, in Brazil, which on Wednesday 18th became accessible to some users in the country. On the site TechCrunchThe executive classified the social network’s return as a “coincidence.”
“I don’t think any of this change was intentional to circumvent the blockade in Brazil. It was literally a swap of one IT company for another,” he told the site.
The executive said his company had won a contract with X to offer cloud computing services in several regions of the world, including Brazil. OX had used the services of Fastly, a competitor of Cloudfare, and the exchange process would have taken place when Supreme Federal Court (STF) determined the block. The exchange of companies led to the exchange of IP (the “address” of every machine on the Internet) which ended up allowing access to Elon Musk’s social network.
In a statement on Wednesday, Abrint said the access was possible thanks to the adoption of dynamic IP addresses provided by the platform Cloudflarea cloud reverse proxy service that acts as an intermediary between users and X servers. The IP is the unique number of every machine or server on the Internet, like the numbers of houses on a street. The proxy allows you to “hide” this number, making it difficult to block.
“We never talked to X about helping them get around the Brazilian ban,” Prince told the publication. “That was some of their traffic coming from Fastly to us, especially in Latin America,” he added. He also claims it was all a “huge coincidence,” happening during Musk’s political dispute in the country.
Illegal shift
Founded in 2009, the Cloudflare provides infrastructure and security services for various websites and applications, such as Discord, Udemy and Canva, which are currently valued at $26.6 billion on the New York Stock Exchange. The Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (Abrint) said on Wednesday that the X circumvented the court order by adopting dynamic IP addresses provided by Cloudflare.
Jéferson Campos Nobre, professor at the Information Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), explains that a large number of services available on the Internet use Cloudfare services, many of them adopting the service chosen by X, called reverse proxy. This is a technique used by online service servers to handle high traffic and be able to load faster.
To do this, the reverse proxy acts as an intermediary between the user and the service provider. However, when this communication is made, the reverse proxy hide IP (the “address” of the machine on the Internet) of those who contract the service, which ends up adopting the numbers provided by Cloudflare. The blocking of X in Brazil was carried out using the real IP number of Elon Musk’s company.
Remember the suspension of X in Brazil
On August 31, after the minister’s decision Alexander de MoraesThe social network has been suspended indefinitely in the country.
The suspension came after a series of conflicts between Moraes and Elon Muskthe owner of the platform. On August 17, the billionaire closed his offices Brazil for not accepting many of Moraes’s demands, such as tools to control fake news within X.
After the shutdown, the minister asked Musk to appoint a Brazilian legal representative for X, otherwise the social network would be suspended in the country.
Since the request for agreement did not receive a response from Musk, X stopped working in Brazil on August 30. In addition, the minister blocked the Internet company’s accounts. Starlink – again from Musk – as a guarantee for the payment of the fines suffered by X.
After a block of about R$ 18 million, the accounts were unblocked again. Despite this, X remained suspended, as the release of the platform requires other legal measures such as a legal representative in the country and tools that report and delete profiles that attack democracy, for example.
Thursday 19 X indicated to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Two Brazilian lawyers to defend the platform in the country in the case pending before the Court: André Zonaro Giacchetta and Sérgio Rosenthal. The information was confirmed by the Minister Alexander de Moraesrapporteur of the investigations that led to the suspension of the social network in Brazil.
Source: Terra
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