Blackout: Syria cut off from global Internet as civil war rages
The world woke up to the news on Wednesday, that Syria has “largely disappeared” from the internet world for the second time since the uprising began in 2011, according to U.S. tech firms monitoring Web traffic and the State Department. The internet …
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Syria's Internet Goes Dark
That's from Dan Hubbard at Umbrella Security Labs, and other monitoring companies have similarly reported that web traffic in the country has disappeared, notes the Guardian. The most common speculation is that Bashar al-Assad cut it on purpose to …
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Syria 'disappears' from internet
Google's data showed traffic disruptions limited to Syria and spanning the entire country. Shutting an entire nation from the Internet is possible because IP addresses, individual connections established by each device, are geographically specific and …
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