Defense Restores Access to Blocked Websites

U.S. Cyber Command issued a one sentence statement late Friday saying it had reopened access to 13 commercial websites blocked since March11 to conserve bandwidth for relief operations in Japan.

Cyber Command gave no reason for the turnabout in policy.

The sites include ESPN. I have a feeling that if folks start overloading Defense nets as "March Madness" peaks, that site might end up blocked again.

Besides ESPN, Defense users can now access these previously blocked websites:

Amazon

DoubleClick

eBay

EyeWonder

Google Videos

iFilm

Metacafe

MTV

MySpace

Pandora

StreamWorld

YouTube