[AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

[Tony]

It seems that the opposition has been preparing for this to occur for a while.


From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-turn-to-skype-for-communications.html?_r=0

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 
country. 
“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. 








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> From: Aqius <aqius at lavabit.com>
>To: "'ausnog at ausnog.net'" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
>Sent: Friday, 30 November 2012 4:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!
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>Here’s hoping tomorrow news isn’t too bad…
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>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.
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>From:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Narelle
>Sent: Friday, 30 November 2012 16:12
>To: Noel Butler
>Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!
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>I have it on good authority that there are three undersea cables heading into Syria and one that comes overland from Turkey.
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>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...
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>I understand the routes were all withdrawn systematically, so this doesn't suggest fibre cuts, but deliberate reconfiguration of routers.
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>See:
>http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ 
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>Reminds me of Libya. That's what happened then.
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>Narelle Clark
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>Internet Society of Australia
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>int ph: +61 412 297 043
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>On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 00:24 +0000, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote: 
>Hmmm
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>Wondering if BBS will re appear (with up dialup ) again 
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>I'm sure they do exist already    
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>However, if reports are true, they have taken out total communications in some areas, so not much good.
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