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Lights out, rebels: it looks like the Syrian government just blacked out almost the entire country’s access to the web. This is cyber warfare.
Internet-monitoring firm Renesys says “77 networks experienced an outage in Syria starting at 10:26 UTC on November 29. This represents 92% of the routed networks in the country.” That’s a big chunk of the country’s infrastructure that just went dark. Danger Room spoke to an activist working with Syria’s rebel forces who confirms the outage.
A smaller outage could be chalked up to an errant mortar shell, but 92 per cent of the entire country? Only the Syrian regime has the power to create that kind of lockout at will. [Renesys via Danger Room]
Unrelated video of Syrian regime helicopter blown up by rebels used as a metaphor. For the Internet, y’know?
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
Syria Dropped Off the Face of the Internet Again
Syria Is Completely Cut Off from the Internet Again
First related article is an article of the same thing happening to the same country in July.
Where is this unrelated metaphor video?
That video is horribly tasteless, I wish I’d not clicked play.
What the fuck? You’re linking a video of people being killed to an article about the internet?
What next? “Here’s another Apple patent courtcase and a snuff movie, because internet”?
That video should be there, why do you think it is right to show the deaths of people on an article about the internet?
*shouldn’t
edit button pls.
“Only the Syrian regime has the power to create that kind of lockout at will.”
Or many western governments / anonymous / bored teenage script kiddie.
It is kind of an irrelevant video…
Don’t worry, all the cool tech sites are including people dying with their daily tech articles.
Oh dear. Didn’t they see how Anonymous reacted when Israel merely threatened to cut off internet access to Gaza?