That's actually a really viable theory, especially given the "can't search for traceroute" thing - that spits out what seems to be a time-based error string.
It’s not, that’s just standard akamai WAF behaviour.
E: sorry, HN is throttling me and I can’t reply below. This is just a silly web application firewall that blocks a list of “suspicious strings”. There’s not much else to be said about it.
