Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

[Martin Hannigan <martin () theicelandguy com>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy () evilrouters net>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Steve Pirk<orion () pirk com> wrote:
> > There are some, ehrm, "boxen" out on the 'net to allow them to get around
> > the active blocking going on, but most of the citizen reporters are
> unable
> > to even get a conection to allow proxying out. Some serious censoring of
> > 'net access going on.
>
> Doesn't DCI still control things there?  If so, they could cut Iran
> off from the world very easily if they wanted.


Iran breaks their communications infrastructure into pseudo-zones. You can
easily pinpoint a few choke points and surgically remove them from the
Internet.

This is the case for many countries. Sometimes the infrastructure is so
hierarchically designed (likely for surveillance purposes) that you could
literally watch their bgp advertisements and potentially draw conclusions
about things "other than" Internet activity.

Best Regards,

-M<


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