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What is happening to the Internet in Venezuela? Did U.S. use cyber capabilities?

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10 points by pamcake 9 days ago · 4 comments

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bell-cot 9 days ago

I wouldn't read too much into the details here. When your attackers have near-complete intel on your infrastructure, and can chose from a dozen different bomb / missile / cannon / infantry / saboteur / cyber options to knock out your internet service - their choices may be mostly about "let's expend the last few of those obsolete Mark 9F/J rounds", or "General Sellers insists that his people get to do something too", or "the Pres. said this one had a cool-sounding name".

robthebrew 9 days ago

Starlink was turned off. Now Musk is giving freebees to users to reconnect (and have all their stuff sent to the NSA)

vintagedave 9 days ago

> "the lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have...,” Trump said

Is this implying cyber attacks on the infrastructure?

I found the chart lower down on tens of thousands of using using Tor fascinating. I didn't know Tor was widely known (I myself have never used it, even though I've heard of it for years) and that seems a massive spike.

  • anovikov 9 days ago

    In countries where Internet is badly censored, people know about it by necessity...

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