[liberationtech] Hearing Syria internet cut

[Brian Conley]

I have a colleague who was in touch with multiple individuals in Syria today, I believe after 1400 utc, but I have to confirm.

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On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:20, Andrew Lewis <andrew at pdqvpn.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> And those prefixes cover the entire commercial Internet space, in effect all of Syria was down. 
> 
> There have also been reports of routing issues all day. I haven't been able to confirm. 
> 
> I honestly think we are headed towards a communication blackout. 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
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>> ----- Forwarded message from Andree Toonk <andree+nanog at toonk.nl> -----
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>> From: Andree Toonk <andree+nanog at toonk.nl>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:21:21 -0700
>> To: George Bonser <gbonser at seven.com>
>> Cc: "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at nanog.org>
>> Subject: Re: Hearing Syria internet cut
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>> .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 12-07-19 10:00 PM  George
>> Bonser wrote:
>>> Can anyone confirm? 
>> 
>> Yes confirmed, about 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP
>> tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Andree
>> 
>> 
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>> ----- End forwarded message -----
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