No reports at all... Let me ask a few more. Joel Harding Information Operations Holistic Organizer (IOHO) http://toinformistoinfluence.com (703) 362-8582
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jill Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > Joel: Any sense from your IO optic how the technology provided is > circumventing the Syrian network "...computers, phones, cameras....all > designed to be independent from and able to circumvent the Syrian domestic > network precisely for the reason of keeping them safe, keeping them secure > from regime tampering, regime listening, regime interruption" > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel Harding > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:28 PM > To: Liberation > Subject: [liberationtech] US State Department comments on Internet Shutdown > > Note the assistance publicly released. > > QUESTION: Do you have any comment on the reports of a hearing about the > internet being cut off across Syria today? > > MS. NULAND: We have been learning from local coordinating councils inside > Syria over the last day or so that the regime does appear to be resorting to > cutting off all kinds of communication - cellular networks, landlines, as > well as internet service across the country - notably in Damascus and the > suburbs as well as Hama, Homs, and Tartus. > Obviously, we condemn this latest assault on the Syrian people's ability to > express themselves and communicate with each other. And it just, again, > speaks to the kind of desperation of the regime as it tries to cling to power. > > QUESTION: And on that point, is there - the U.S. has been providing > communications equipment. Can the groups to whom it's been provided continue > to communicate without this - without these networks? > > MS. NULAND: Yes. We've provided some 2,000 communications kits, pieces of > equipment, since this effort began. These are all kinds of things: > computers, phones, cameras. They are all designed to be independent from and > able to circumvent the Syrian domestic network precisely for the reason of > keeping them safe, keeping them secure from regime tampering, regime > listening, regime interruption. > > Joel Harding > Information Operations Holistic Organizer (IOHO) > http://toinformistoinfluence.com > (703) 362-8582 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
