{"id":365,"date":"2012-11-30T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=365"},"modified":"2012-11-30T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:08:27","slug":"how-was-syrias-internet-shut-down-experts-explain-online-blackout-29-november-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/11\/30\/how-was-syrias-internet-shut-down-experts-explain-online-blackout-29-november-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"How Was Syria&#8217;s Internet Shut Down? Experts Explain Online Blackout, 29 November 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Faris, Research Director at Harvard University&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society, told The Huffington Post that the &#8220;most likely&#8221; method used by Syrian authorities to conduct this blackout was to &#8220;tweak the routing tables,&#8221; essentially blocking the transference of information by sending it all into a cyber &#8220;blackhole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/29\/syria-internet-shut-down-online-blackout-explained_n_2213263.html\">How Was Syria&#8217;s Internet Shut Down? Experts Explain Online Blackout<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Faris, Research Director at Harvard University&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society, told The Huffington Post that the &#8220;most likely&#8221; method used by Syrian authorities to conduct this blackout was to &#8220;tweak the routing tables,&#8221; essentially blocking the transference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/11\/30\/how-was-syrias-internet-shut-down-experts-explain-online-blackout-29-november-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}