Syria cuts off all internet access.

[jj]

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/07/syria-disappears-off-internet/

Speculation at this point is speculation.

The fact that backdoors haven't healed this is somewhat remarkable, ditto satellite links not doing so.

 

[Childlike Empress]

Speculation at this point is speculation.

But temptation to start a thread will always be temptation to start a thread.

Deja vu. This "happened" before, more than once. fwiw, Syrian Electronic Army mentioned in that "article" seems to be off. SANA too but they get DDoS'd all the time. Those are on for me:

http://documents.sy/index.php?lang=en
http://breakingnews.sy/en.html

 

[Childlike Empress]

The amount of propaganda thrown at this lately is amazing. Somebody has invested a lot and isn't used to losing.

Who knows any Syrian websites anyway if there isn't a helpful Empress around?

 

[Darth Rotor]

Uh, I am so bummed, I had this video that is only hosted on a Syrian web site and now I can't view it.

(NOT!)

In other news, it's not such a big deal.

 

[Childlike Empress]

Don't worry, Darth, i'm here to deliver you the fix and break the censorship! The English language state television news from today hosted by the class enemy:


Kerry had to wait three hours for Vladimir Vladimirovich, btw, and that's straight from abundantly available international "news" channels!

 

[Darth Rotor]

Empress, you ain't seen porn until you've seen Syrian porn. It achieves more depth more often than that news cast.

I wonder why they called it "Zionist Aggression" rather than Israeli attacks/aggression in the header? I noted they used "Israeli" in the newscast.

Thanks for the link, anyway.

 

[Childlike Empress]

I wonder why they called it "Zionist Aggression" rather than Israeli attacks/aggression in the header? I noted they used "Israeli" in the newscast.

The anchor Ala'a Ibrahim is the guy who saw his brother's head without the rest of him delivered back to the family very early in the crisis. He's just incredibly sad and tired and forgot to keep it politically correct (i.e. "Zionist", not "Israeli").

 

[jj]

Ignoring the propaganda, usually Google and Sophos don't report things like this that are only momentary.

So, what's up?

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

This isn't the first time. They "disconnected" from the Internet back in November 2012, too.

Also, they're apparently back online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22447247