Saturday, December 15, 2012

Syria has disappeared from the Internet | Synopsis

Posted by

Syria has disappeared from the Internet

Mozilla is about human interaction with the internet. - Mitchell Baker
Mozilla is about human interaction with the internet. - Mitchell Baker by Mozilla India
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon toward a military tank, unseen, in Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday, Nov. 27 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video) A few hours ago, Syria, the Middle Eastern country in the middle of an especially bloody civil war, disappeared from the Internet. The research firm Renesys, which keeps track of the status and health of the technical underpinnings of the Internet around the world, just reported that at 10:26 UTC this morning — which, by my watch, would have been 5:26 am ET — effectively all of Syria’s international Internet connectivity shut down. More technically, what happened was that within the global routing table, all 84 blocks of IP addresses assigned to Syria have gone unreachable.

People:

Bashar al-Assad

Overall Sentiment: 0.123241

Relevance: 0.314542

Additional Info:

Technology: Internet

Overall Sentiment: -0.185823

Relevance: 0.51365

PrintMedia: AP

Overall Sentiment: -0.0768299

Relevance: 0.344418

Site Meta Info
at
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)