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Syria back online after 20-hour outage, 'cable malfunction' to blame?

Syria back online after 20-hour outage,
  • Posted May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web
  • Last night, for the second time in roughly six months, the people of Syria saw their online ties to the outside world completely severed across the nation. Umbrella Security Labs, the threat research division of OpenDNS first reported the drop…

Anonymous organizes Internet Blackout Day in protest of CISPA

Anonymous organizes Internet Blackout Day in protest of CISPA
  • Posted April 22, 2013, 8:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Members of the loose-knit hactivist group Anonymous are encouraging an Internet Blackout Day in protest of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) which once again made it through the House of Representatives late last week.

Syrian Internet outage persists, Speak2Tweet allows phone tweets

Syrian Internet outage persists, Speak2Tweet allows phone tweets
  • Posted November 30, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • It appears Syria's recent and continued Internet outage has rekindled public interest in Google's Speak2Tweet service. Speak2Tweet allows individuals without Internet access to use Twitter by calling a voicemail system. The audio messages left behind are then made publicly available on…

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