[governance] Syrian blackout

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

In this case at any rate - connectivity out of Syria is through a monopoly, government owned telco, and it was disrupted by bringing down router sessions and shutting down routers.

In other words, unless you have any alternate transit (eg: a satellite phone), your packets just aren't going to flow

Entirely different situation from the usual where there's a great firewall of country X that needs to be circumvented by proxies, TOR nodes and such.  [though running TOR nodes is an activity that entails some risk .. right now, nanog is full of discussion about some austrian guy running a TOR exit node that got used by someone to browse child porn, and the police have siezed all his computers, though he isn't currently under arrest].

--srs (iPad)

On 30-Nov-2012, at 9:18, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> Email sent to another list, relevant here
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Kictanet List,
>> 
>> Please see the work by Jean Camp and Warigia Bowman on how to
>> "Protect the Internet from Dictators: Technical and Policy
>> Solutions to Ensure Online Freedoms. This paper is particularly
>> timely given today's events, since Syria is one of the countries we
>> analyze. Can you please help us to figure out what technology we
>> missed, or in what areas our analysis could be improved? Many
>> thanks.
>> 
>> You can find and download our work here
>> 
>> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2101677
>> 
>> Here is the permalink
>> 
>> http://ssrn.com/abstract=2101677
>  . . .
> 
>> 
>> Sincerely, Rigia
>> Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:22 AM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
>> A blog post related to this: http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet
>> 
>> Regards,
>> -drc
>> 
>> On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Shcherbovich Andrey <dvbirve at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear colleagues!
>>> 
>>> Media says about total disconnection of Syria from the Internet. Do you have any information about the reasons of this disconnection?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Andrey
>>> 
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