<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">It seems that the opposition has been preparing for this to occur for a while.<br><br><br>From:<br>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-turn-to-skype-for-communications.html?_r=0<br><br>having dealt with periodic outages for more than a year, the
opposition had anticipated a full shutdown of Syria’s Internet service
providers. To prepare, they have spent months smuggling communications
equipment like mobile handsets and portable satellite phones into the
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“We’re very well equipped here,” said Albaraa Abdul Rahman, 27, an
activist in Saqba, a poor suburb 20 minutes outside Damascus. He said he
was in touch with an expert in Homs who helped connect his office and
10 others like it in and around Damascus. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" itemprop="articleBody"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" itemprop="articleBody"><br></div><br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Aqius <aqius@lavabit.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
"'ausnog@ausnog.net'" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 30 November 2012 4:14 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!<br> </font> </div> <br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv1961502200"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1961502200WordSection1"><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Here’s hoping tomorrow news isn’t too bad…</span></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Surely there must be more we can do in this day and age? What would it take for independent carriers to provide a little ‘emergency’ bandwidth in such a situation even if it’s GPRS it’d make all the difference.</span></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div
class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Narelle<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 November 2012 16:12<br><b>To:</b> Noel Butler<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!</span></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"><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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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>-- <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 rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au">president@isoc-au.org.au</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.isoc-au.org.au/">www.isoc-au.org.au</a></div><div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"> </div><div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Noel Butler <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>> wrote:</div><div><div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal">On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 00:24 +0000, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote: </div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">Hmmm<br><br> <br><br>Wondering if BBS will re appear (with up dialup ) again </div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"> </div></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal">I'm sure they do exist already <img id="yiv1961502200_x0000_i1025" alt=":)" border="0" height="16" width="16"> <br><br>However, if reports are true, they have taken out total communications in some areas, so not much good.</div></div><div class="yiv1961502200MsoNormal"> </div></div><div
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