[AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!

[Leo Vegoda]

Hi,

Tony wrote:

[...]

> 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. 

Unfortunately, portable satellite phones generally make good targets. That's how Marie Colvin (Sunday Times) was killed earlier this year.

Leo
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