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Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net
Trailrunner7 writes "The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks. The source or motivation of the attack isn't known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian nation."
This isn't a joke. Shame on you. I've been there almost a half a dozen times, setting up hotel systems. If you have any idea what kind of censorship the good people of Myanmar go through every day, you'll understand. When I was there, almost every 3 months, GMail was blocked. But every one there had an email address. And guess what, they had a GMAIL address. Not Yahoo, not Hotmail (which were both accessible), but GMail. For the simple fact that they were told that could not have one. I love you Burma. And I am wishing that things get better.
I mean, haven't you told a racist joke before? You just read one, after all.
That wasn't a racist joke.
It was a political joke referring to the junta's restrictions on internet use by the country's population.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.