01.12.2012 - 20:13 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Syrians Use Old and New Tools to Stay Online During Internet Shutdown

Earlier today, Renesys reported that the last five networks that had survived the initial outage were off the air. In the meantime, experts have cast a skeptical eye on the Syrian Ministry of Information’s claims that the outage is the result of sabotage by “terrorists,” a term that the Assad regime has frequently used to describe the opposition.