Why is the US Army internet-blocking Time Warner?

Noah Shachtman of Wired "Danger Room" blog says,

The military often blocks websites for the oddest and most obscure of reasons. But this has to be one of the strangest digital blockades to date. The Army is choking off web and e-mail traffic with all companies who rely on Time Warner's servers for their online presence.

Link. One Army spokesperson later explained that the block of Time Warner internet services, including Road Runner (above), was in response to a security breach -- but the details still sound weird.

[#1 posted by frowelishnu , September 27, 2007 12:10 PM]

This isn't affecting Hawaii. I was able to access the newspaper site mentioned in the linked article and send and recieve mail from my Road Runner account to my army.mil account.
Cross posted at Wired.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , September 27, 2007 8:32 PM]

This doesn't surprise me at all. I work in computer security, and Time/Warner's network is a sewer. I can think of only one worse in the United States, and that's Comcast. I hope this is a first step toward holding providers responsible for the attacks that originate from compromised systems on their networks. It's long overdue.

[#3 posted by Alden , September 27, 2007 11:27 PM]

The Decepticons are hacking in via Road Runner now?