<br>I have it on good authority that there are three undersea cables heading into Syria and one that comes overland from Turkey.<br><br>For all of these to be cut simultaneously they would need to be coming through an unlikely common path, to let me think, the one exchange, to the one set of routers all controlled by the one company... say Syrian Telecommunications...<br>
<br>I understand the routes were all withdrawn systematically, so this doesn't suggest fibre cuts, but deliberate reconfiguration of routers.<br><br>See:<br><a href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/">http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/</a> <br>
<br>Reminds me of Libya. That's what happened then.<br><br><br><font color="#800000"></font>-- <br><br><br>Narelle Clark<br>President<br>Internet Society of Australia<br>ph: 0412 297 043<br>int ph: +61 412 297 043<br>
<a href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au">president@isoc-au.org.au</a><br><a href="http://www.isoc-au.org.au">www.isoc-au.org.au</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Noel Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Wondering if BBS will re appear (with up dialup ) again <br>
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I'm sure they do exist already <img src="cid:1354235998.5109.24.camel@tardis" alt=":)" align="middle" border="0"> <br>
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However, if reports are true, they have taken out total communications in some areas, so not much good.<br></div>
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