In response to the obstruction, DigitalOcean's users and clients began to contact the company. In a response to a client's inquiry, which was obtained by "Mada Masr", DigitalOcean wrote that the interrupted service was not the result of a technical error but had been deliberately caused: Since you're physically in Egypt, there's not much we would be able to do to prevent them from messing with your traffic... Your government is performing DPI [Deep packet inspection] and is messing somehow with these secure connections.