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Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid
hypnosec writes "Amidst the ongoing civil war, Syria has gone off the Internet as of a few hours ago, with all the 84 IP block within the country unreachable from the outside. Renesys, a research firm keeping tabs on the health of the Internet, reported at about 5:25 ET that Syria's Internet connectivity has been shut down. The internet traffic from outside to Syrian IP addresses is going undelivered, and anything coming from within the country is not reaching the Internet. Akamai has tweeted that its traffic data supports what Renesys has observed."
Reader trickstyhobbit adds a report from Slate that the connection "appear[s] to have been knocked off line by heavy fighting earlier this morning. They are also reporting that the shutdown may have been intentional to aid in a government operation."
Maybe Syria doesn't need to come back, or if it does, maybe not with a full block. IPv4 addresses are valuable!
Time to unplug the router, wait a few seconds, and plug it in again.
Free IPs for everyone.
We can reclaim those IPs? I'm sure they would love to hear they can now only avail of IPv6 addressing :p
A communication disruption can only mean one thing.
There is great change in the Middle East
http://world.time.com/2012/11/29/why-palestine-will-win-big-at-the-un/
'An instructive week after Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip tested Israel on the battlefield, the pacifist politicians who govern the West Bank are poised to notch a significant diplomatic win without much of a fight at all. Today, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas formally asks the United Nations General Assembly to be voted aboard as a “non-member state.” Assured of its passage by a whopping majority, Israel and the United States have noted their objections mildly and mostly for the record, their effort to limit the fallout for the Jewish state itself limited in the wake of Gaza. The status of “non-member state” — emphasis on the “state” — will give Palestine the same level of diplomatic recognition as the Vatican, which is technically a sovereign entity.'
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/29/world/meast/egypt-protests/?hpt=wo_c1
'Tumultuous efforts to draft a new constitution for Egypt rushed toward a conclusion Thursday as Islamists who dominate the council writing the new document called for a snap vote amid widespread protests against the Muslim Brotherhood-backed president. The move was seen by some critics of President Mohamed Morsy as an effort by the Muslim Brotherhood to hijack the constitution. "This cannot happen," said Ayman Nour, a former presidential hopeful who quit the constitutional assembly this year. "It would be the biggest treason in Egypt's history."'
Let us hope a Syria blackout means it will be a better part of the world.
This prolly means that the regime ( the Assad one ) is in their last ditches, and fighting the eponymous fight. Soon, some rebel fraction is going to take over in Syria. Some of whom may be heavily bearded men who think that democracy is filth. And so on, and so on...
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
Syria should have never entered the high beyond.
For those of you who think the internet is some magically self-healing construct immune to accidental or intentional disconnection of nodes and subnetworks, this should serve to show that if you aren't in charge over the physical infrastructure, you are at the mercy of those who are.
SYRIAN 1: We're heading out Californy way, I heard they gots a whole mess of internet!
SYRIAN 2: I might just click on a popup, just for the heck of it!
Let's do that. What better non-violence way of pretesting.
of my favorite (most hated) phrase: "The [I]nternet is down(1!1!)".
I usually think to myself "yes, the entire Internet. Gone. The bastards finally did it".
The entire western narrative on Syria has been one guy in Britain. This is a US-backed coup led by Islamic jihadists in the same fashion that we hired Al Qaeda to fight the Russians in Afghanistan for us. Not once has any western-backed media outlet given any credibility to Syria. If Syria wanted the Internet and communications gone, they would have done so a long time ago.
If you can get a working land line, there is always Dialup Providers you could call. Better than nothing I suppose, especially if its an emergency.
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Syrian government has been threatening cutoff for a while. My money says this is no accident.
Deja Moo: The distinct feeling that you've heard this bull before.
I CAN'T GET TO LOLGOATS!
just reboot the router. that always works.
I'm surprised areas like this don't have satellite coverage. I live in the middle of nowhere in New York and my satellite connection pops out in Colorado. We have a backup generator and all so when folks 15 miles away have no internet (they can all get cable/DSL) or power we don't even notice. I would think that if there was satellites in line of sight someone should hook themselves up to this and pop out in Italy or something. As long as you can generate power there is no problem staying online. I'm sure of course this comes down to economics.
neorush
WTF is the "Internet Grid"?
Is somebody playing buzzword bingo here? Some marketing tool-bag perhaps that just throws any of the "new whizbang" terms together that he can get his hands on perhaps?
Id have been surprised if those people had indoor plumbling, books or even soap. But the internet? Who took over that country and pulled them out of the mud?
Oh well, all of the 200 syrians in that country must be upset they cant check out their goat sex websites.
This is very disturbing.
can you fagots LOL some more in the comments about it? Please?
Directional WiFi into Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Gosh folks, this is really Syria's.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I call dibs on the .sy domain.
Cellular.
http://xkcd.com/705/
..or hang up and dial back in?
With apologies to Churchill is this the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end the Assad regime?
When an entire country ragequits the Interweb.
The real question is, will liveleak see a shortage of snackbar videos?
Looks intentional: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/29/syria-blocks-internet
Syrian government claims that this is the result of a "terrorist" (rebel) attack on the main connection cable, and that engineers are working on fixing it.
Feels roomier today.
DIE AMERICUNTS!
The rebels (al-queda funded by DC/CIA/) are by proxy our oath breaking official's "FRIENDS" now.
The dual message here is treason.
Round up of all the oath breaking senators, thieving banksters and have buses to deliver them to Ft Leavenworth for processing.
With the Constitution Restored
The DHS, CIA, NSA must be de-activated
Claw back the MONEY from these de-activated coups. They were not legit anyway!! Not one of their jobs is legit.
Oath breakers put this police state up, and the only thing to take the police state down is to put these psychopaths in fucking prison.
if you don't agree, and you allow this shit to continue, YOU will pay their price.
no constitution
no justice
no property
no rights
no guns
no farms
UN Control.
Carbon Tax
Undeclared War
Treason
Theft
Fraud
Lies
Bullshit.
Fuck everyone that don't get it. You fucking dumbshits.
"appear[s] to have been knocked off line by heavy fighting earlier this morning." - uhhhh, no. Unless they were specifically all targeting some ruthless fiber optic cable or they managed to level their entire country, I don't think it happened by random chance. 10% of internet connections in Syria would be random chance.
Private mercenaries on one side, Syrian government on the other.
This isn't a civil war, it's outsourced terrorism.
Still might be worth throwing together a proof of concept, hmm...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Syrian internet is dead!
(Ok, I know it's overused... but in this case it could actually apply!)
I'm an individual! Just like everyone else!
Under certian circumstances might we all agree that a people have the right to emergency communication when under oppression?
Perhaps a certian human rights document needs to be unanimously agreed to in modern times which includes unubstructed secret communications with anyone in the world or beyond.
Just my 2cents worth...
..about how long it'll take before Anonymous get involved?
From their email of 1600 yesterday...
davecb@spamcop.net
See especially JP Hogan's Voyage From Yesteryear: http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?titleID=29&cmd=summary
BTW, some social semantic desktop ideas to consider for Tonika (but in Java): https://github.com/pdfernhout/Pointrel20120623
Something to cosider on social organziation: http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
"To make things worse, the solution to this is not simply to begin adding meshwork components to the mix. Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory alone but demand concrete experimentation. Certain standardizations, say, of electric outlet designs or of data-structures traveling through the Internet, may actually turn out to promote heterogenization at another level, in terms of the appliances that may be designed around the standard outlet, or of the services that a common data-structure may make possible. On the other hand, the mere presence of increased heterogeneity is no guarantee that a better state for society has been achieved. After all, the territory occupied by former Yugoslavia is more heterogeneous now than it was ten years ago, but the lack of uniformity at one level simply hides an increase of homogeneity at the level of the warring ethnic communities. But even if we managed to promote not only heterogeneity, but diversity articulated into a meshwork, that still would not be a perfect solution. After all, meshworks grow by drift and they may drift to places where we do not want to go. The goal-directedness of hierarchies is the kind of property that we may desire to keep at least for certain institutions. Hence, demonizing centralization and glorifying decentralization as the solution to all our problems would be wrong. An open and experimental attitude towards the question of different hybrids and mixtures is what the complexity of reality itself seems to call for. To paraphrase Deleuze and Guattari, never believe that a meshwork will suffice to save us."
Se also on new economic balances my "Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.