The Security Blog

20:19 khawkins: Curious why the media isn’t covering the events in Iran – the world’s most important story since the US election http://tinyurl.com/nlu3od <–first complaint about "traditional" news outlets not covering the aftermath of the Iran elections

20:25 VOMC: Mobile phones, Facebook, YouTube cut in Iran as election results spark riots http://tinyurl.com/lclple <– first report of social media sites being cut off

p20:42 SMacLaughlin: @jeffjarvis Best coverage in Iran coming from @jimsciuttoABC — The revolution will be tweeted #iran <– first use of the phrase "The Revolution will be Tweeted"

03:24 AM 6/14/09 jonjanego: It sounds like iran is playing at internal cyberwar – shutting down internet, cellular services. Interesting reaction to ‘open’ elections! <– first rumor of Internet shutdown in Iran

The Battle For Network Control Thanks to our friend Richard Stiennon (see his blog at http://threatchaos.com/), we came across the Renesys site that we hope to be able to show in this blog in the near future. BGP and Internet Resiliency If you read it carefully, it seems that Iran DID shut down its outbound Internet access for some time, but apparently forgetting about the resilient

"…[Internet] excellence can be measured in such terms as responsiveness, scalability, resilience to disruption, and ability to adapt to changing needs…" – Vint Cerf, one of the three "fathers" of the Internet said about Internet resilience:.

nature of the Internet (and in particular the BGP protocol) that allows traffic to re-route, thus letting traffic out through Turkey (the country, not the beast).

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