Did Syria Just Turn Off The Internet?


Lights out, rebels: it looks like the Syrian government just blacked out almost the entire country’s access to the web. This is cyber warfare.

Internet-monitoring firm Renesys says “77 networks experienced an outage in Syria starting at 10:26 UTC on November 29. This represents 92% of the routed networks in the country.” That’s a big chunk of the country’s infrastructure that just went dark. Danger Room spoke to an activist working with Syria’s rebel forces who confirms the outage.

A smaller outage could be chalked up to an errant mortar shell, but 92% of the entire country? Only the Syrian regime has the power to create that kind of lockout at will. [Twitter via Renesys via Danger Room]

Update: ABC News reports phone service is severed too.


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