[liberationtech] Syria blackout?

Thu May 31 19:28:49 UTC 2012

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And as a follow up on this list:

I have one report from one ISP(Sawa) that things are blocked. I am now
trying to collect more info to see if it is something implemented at
the ISP level or something at the exit points for the entire country.
These international connections fall under the control of STE(State
Telecom Establishment) and the PDN/PDN2 backbone that they control,
which everyone else rides on top of. In the past all blocking was
ordered and relayed through STE, but implemented at the ISP level.
This resulted in discrepancies and uneven filtering as ISP choose to
interpret the rules a little differently, as well as using different
to tech to implement the orders from the Syrian Government. If this is
a uniform block across all ISPs, then it indicates that STE has
stepped in and and taken responsibility. It also indicates that they
may have acquired new gear, as they did not have the capacity or
skills to take part in such activity in the past.

- -Andrew

On 5/31/2012 3:01 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew <andrew at pdqvpn.com> -----
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> From: Andrew <andrew at pdqvpn.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:36:22
> -0400 To: liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re:
> [liberationtech] Syria blackout? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows
> NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1
> 
> And it looks like I maybe wrong. It seems that torrents, and
> videos stopped working sometime yesterday. I am going to do some
> more digging. Tor, and some specific types of VPNs still seem to be
> working fine.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> On 5/31/2012 2:26 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> ----- Forwarded message from Rafael Cresci <rafael at cresci.org> 
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>> From: Rafael Cresci <rafael at cresci.org> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 
>> 14:41:09 -0300 To: nanog at nanog.org Subject: Syria blackout? 
>> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278)
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>> Customers (from UAE) who have servers with us in Atlanta - one
>> of the companies I work for, remaining anonymus for the moment -
>> are reporting that their sub-customers and viewers from Syria
>> can't access FTP or download any kind of Flash/video/multimedia
>> content from inside that country. Completely blocked.
> 
>> Anyone confirms?
> 
>> Another government blockage to avoid social captiruing of
>> massacre videos and photos?
> 
> 
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