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Recent Notes
“The internet is that last shred of hope because, in the darkness of a blackout, anything can happen and nobody will know.”
In #Iran's digital darkness it's unlikely anyone really knows what damage the regime has wrought.
🖋️ Fintan Hogan writes for The Sunday Times, asking whether it can happen in the UK
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/iran-internet-shutdown-uk-c77ms6xdw
In #Iran's digital darkness it's unlikely anyone really knows what damage the regime has wrought.
🖋️ Fintan Hogan writes for The Sunday Times, asking whether it can happen in the UK
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/iran-internet-shutdown-uk-c77ms6xdw
⚠️ Update: 20 full days after #Iran imposed a national internet blackout, most ordinary users still face heavy filtering and intermittent service under a whitelist system despite a significant increase in internationally visible networks and datacenters.
⚠️ Update: With #Iran's internet shutdown approaching day 20, many networks are becoming visible internationally.
HOWEVER:
📵 No return to usual: Web still heavily filtered on a whitelist basis.
🔧 Circumvention still needed: The opening of protocols can enable new workarounds.
HOWEVER:
📵 No return to usual: Web still heavily filtered on a whitelist basis.
🔧 Circumvention still needed: The opening of protocols can enable new workarounds.
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a disruption to internet connectivity in Kharkiv, #Ukraine, following a combined UAV and heavy rocket artillery assault by Russia targeting energy infrastructure
⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout continues through its 18th day, obscuring the extent of a deadly crackdown on civilians.
Meanwhile, gaps in the filternet are being tightened to limit circumvention while whitelisted regime accounts promote the Islamic Republic's narrative.
Meanwhile, gaps in the filternet are being tightened to limit circumvention while whitelisted regime accounts promote the Islamic Republic's narrative.
⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout continues in its third week despite a brief momentary restoration of international connectivity around hour 375. Online platforms are occasionally whitelisted and some users have been able to tunnel out over the last couple of days.
⚠️ Confirmed: Telemetry indicate a major disruption to networks in Belgorod, western #Russia, after Ukraine targets the region's energy installations with missiles; initial analysis suggests one of the most effective infrastructure strikes by Ukraine since the start of the war
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