[liberationtech] Internet off in Syria?

[Rafal Rohozinski]

The SecDev's Syria Operations Group detected 60 of 67 net blocks returning  at 1600 hrs. local time. Connectivity is restored in most major cities and governorates with the exception of those with damaged infrastructure (see embedded map).  Circumvention systems are back online.

Sources in Syria suggest that the blackout may have been caused by a technical error rather than intentionally. 

Further info at: https://www.facebook.com/Syrian.DS

Rafal




On May 8, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Enrique Piraces <piracee at hrw.org> wrote:

> I see a few machines from Syrian Computer Society are accessible.
> 
> 
> On May 8, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Walid AL-SAQAF wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> It seems connectivity is slowly returning to Syria. I noticed some
>> connections from MTN-SYRIA to my server.
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Walid
>> 
>> -----------------
>> 
>> Walid Al-Saqaf
>> Founder & Administrator
>> alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
>> https://alkasir.com
>> 
>> PGP: https://alkasir.com/doc/admin_alkasir_pub_key.txt
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:19 AM, KheOps <kheops at ceops.eu> wrote:
>>> Morning/afternoon/evening all,
>>> 
>>> Le 08/05/2013 09:54, Walid AL-SAQAF a écrit :
>>>> Hi Brian, Tiago and other friends,
>>>> 
>>>> I can confirm that users from Syria have stopped using my Alkasir
>>>> servers for accessing the Internet since yesterday at noon. Looking at
>>>> my records, it appears it stopped totally after noticing a decline in
>>>> the number of connections in recent days. It appears that what we feared
>>>> would happen has just happened.
>>>> 
>>>> Let's keep monitoring to see if any are able to get online from Syria.
>>> 
>>> My DNS server traffic from Syria also dropped to zero.
>>> 
>>> Some people have been working overnight to try to see if landlines still
>>> work in some cities, to see if dialup can be used.
>>> 
>>> Info has been gathered there: https://pad.hacktivist.me/p/landlines
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> KheOps
>>> 
>>> 
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