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How to tell when your government shuts down your Internet access

The Parallax

But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE.

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The 10 top network outages of 2021

Kentik

Every year the internet experiences numerous disruptions and outages, and 2021 was certainly no exception. This year we documented outages, including multiple government-directed shutdowns, as well as what might be the internet’s biggest outage in history. Famous internet outages. Uganda election shutdown.

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What’s next for the internet in Afghanistan?

Kentik

Will it also end a period of development of the domestic internet in Afghanistan? Growth of Afghan domestic internet. The fragmented nature of the country’s internet, driven by its austere mountainous geography, meant that shutting down service in Afghanistan would require more than a single kill switch.

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Network AF, Episode 5: Building relationships as an internet analyst with Doug Madory

Kentik

Doug is a veteran, a researcher, a writer and Kentik’s director of internet analysis. At each of these companies, he served as an expert network researcher, using data to help interpret events, human behavior and internet incidents. How Doug builds relationships while communicating technical networking data. Getting his start.

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Attack Surface Risk, Challenges and Changes

Palo Alto Networks

What's more, a failure in these systems could result in serious operational issues or even a complete shutdown. If IT department and security team members don't know people are adding cloud workloads outside of governance, they won't know how to manage and monitor these attack vectors. How Is the Attack Surface Changing?

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Radar trends to watch: October 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Using AI to understand “lost” languages , written languages that we don’t know how to translate, isn’t just about NLP; it sometimes requires deciphering damaged texts (such as eroded stone tablets) where humans can no longer recognize the written characters. How intrusive do you want your phone to be?

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: ChatGPT Use Can Lead to Data Privacy Violations

Tenable

Learn how businesses can run afoul of privacy laws with generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Also, cybercrooks lost a major resource with the Genesis Market shutdown. government said this week, the latest warning about the legal risks of misusing this artificial intelligence technology. And much more! But back to the U.K.

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