Presumable some national outages are trial runs
by governments, by Internet operators, by cable
operators (and their contractors), by
corporations, by enemies, by hackers. by pre-teens giggling at stupid adults.
Same trial runs for software as with spies, by
same interests working solo, in concert or against one another.
Many reports of trial runs discovered, found
accidentally, disclosed as threats, usual
fuck-ups of technology over-reaching its
capabilities. Kings, queens, politicians,
military, engineers, architects, scientists,
missionaries, evangelists, businesses, pre-teens
been doing these con-jobs since the beginning.
Can't name a country, nation, kingdom, invaders,
murderers, animal species, that did not get its
start this way, and deploys shitstorms to keep
control against successors and predators.
BTW, care to invest infected cryptocurrency in my
digital bullshit media manufactory?
At 07:56 PM 12/21/2019, you wrote:
From: Sean Donelan
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> viaÂ
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
I hadn't seen messages about this Internet outage affecting multiple
countries (Eastern Europe, Turkey and Iran) from Thursday.
Multiple fiber cuts affecting major parts of sub-continents don't happen
as much any more. Yes, I still remember the day of FIVE (5) simultaneous,
transcontinental fiber cuts in the USA. I was busy :-)
I don't know if Internet route diversity has improved... or people aren't
sending me messages about them anymore.
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I have become quite interested in this lately. I don't send them
to the list as no one seemed interested when I sent them before.Â
For example, India as been turning off the internet like they turn
the lights:
<https://internetshutdowns.in/>https://internetshutdowns.in/
Kashmir has been without internet for over 100 days:
<https://guardian.ng/news/world/restive-kashmir-marks-100-days-since-india-stripped-autonomy/>https://guardian.ng/news/world/restive-kashmir-marks-100-days-since-india-stripped-autonomy/
Just think how you'd do anything without internet for 100+ days!
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Usually after a country as 3 or 4 major egress points, large-scale
unintentional internet outages are relatively rare. Countries with only
1 or 2 egress points still have lots of problems.
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I'm not so sure 3-4 is a large enough number. Many countries are
copying China in information repression (among other things) which
includes building in the ability to turn off internet access
(internationally as well as intranationally) as their network is
built out. Funny that one thing something as large as a country
is afraid of is normal folks talking to each other freely. They
really don't like the end-to-end principle. :)
scott
<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420
Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern
Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday.
The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre
cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to
happen.
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