[AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

[Mark Smith]

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> From: Narelle <narellec at gmail.com>
>To: Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> 
>Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
>Sent: Friday, 30 November 2012 4:11 PM
>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I understand the routes were all withdrawn systematically, so this doesn't suggest fibre cuts, but deliberate reconfiguration of routers.
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It wouldn't be surprising to find out that DPI devices (or higher capacity ones) had been inserted by the Syrian government during this outage.



>See:
>http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/
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>Reminds me of Libya. That's what happened then.
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>On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
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>>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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