Networks dark as protests against Assad intensify; 60 dead
(NEWSER) - As protesters took to the streets with renewed ferocity in Syria today, roughly two-thirds of the country’s Internet networks abruptly disappeared from global routing tables, Bloomberg reports. As of this morning, 40 of the country’s 59 networks were unreachable. One state-run site confirmed that the government had “cut off Internet service (3G, DSL, Dial-up) all across the country, including government institutions,” according to ZDNet . Later, the site said Internet was available in some places, but “broken” in Damascus, Aleppo and “the provinces.” More»
