December 6th, 2012

Syria’s Internet Blackout: How The Government Could Have Done It

Michelle Zatlyn on Syria's Internet Shutdown

Last week, the entire country of Syria experienced an Internet blackout. The country’s repressive regime claimed that a terrorist attack had taken out the physical cables that connect it to the rest of the world, but Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of web security firm Cloudflare, says that claim is unfounded. → Read More

November 29th, 2012

Syria Shuts Down Internet In Midst Of Uprising, Mobile Services And Land Lines Partially Down

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According to multiple Internet monitoring services, Syrian authorities have cut off access to the Internet. The news comes as an uprising has shaken the country for months, with an opposition trying to get together to face president and dictator Bashar al Assad. In the capital city Damascus, mobile services and land lines are affected as well. → Read More

July 5th, 2012

Wikileaks To Publish Millions Of Emails From Syrian Officials

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Wikileaks has just announced that they’re processing a trove of 2.4 million emails from and to Syrian officials that details the links between the internationally despised regime and outside governments and organizations. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote that the “the material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s external opponents.”

The emails could have… → Read More