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Syria?s Internet Outage & the Future of Information Warfare

December 1, 2012Print VersionSource:?Tony Cartalucci, BLN Contributing WriterIt?s not that Syria?s government didn?t prepare for war. They perhaps, simply prepared for the wrong kind of war.This week when sweeping outages in Syria?s communication networks were reported, the Western media immediately accused the Syrian government of being behind the move. However, it should be noted that?NATO-backed terrorists?operating inside of Syria have been?openly given advanced communication equipment?(alsohere?and?here) by Western nations, including the United States, allowing militants to create their own, independent communication networks. This includes radio, satellite, and cell networks, as well as the under-reported existence?of ?suitcase Internets? (also?here?and?here).The reason a communications blackout in Syria would not effect NATO?s primary proxy forces is because any node or bottleneck in Syria controlled by the government has already long since been circumvented, either through independent networks, or satellite links.Image: New York Times depicts what is called a ?mesh network,? or an independent internet that uses computers and phones not only as interfaces, but as actual nodes to create the network Imagine in this case, that the ?country border? is that of Turkey and Syria. Such networks can be set up virtually anywhere, and the development of methods and software to do so have been the subject of US State Department funding and implementation.?.The New York Times in their article, ?U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors,? stated in June, 2011 that:The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy ?shadow? Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype ?Internet in a suitcase.?Therefore, the Syrian government would gain very little by shutting off the Internet to neutralize networks working entirely independent of infrastructure within state control. Conversely, if NATO has shut the Internet off at nodes leading into Syria, as appears to be the case, NATO and their proxies operating inside of Syria can begin spreading false information, uncontested, via radio, SMS, and even ad hoc WiFi networks.With NATO?s proxies possessing their own communication networks, their own ability to co-opt and control signals in and near their areas of operation, in particular along the borders where NATO forces themselves are directly involved in disrupting and controlling communications,?according to Reuters, a disruption in Syria?s communication networks would only serve to blind, hinder, and disrupt the government and the vast majority of Syria?s civilians.The control of information, the ability to communicate and coordinate one?s forces, whether they are forces of a military or economic nature, is essential to the survival and prosperity of any nation. The neglect of improving and protecting the means of communication and the control of information within one?s borders is the modern equivalent of letting a castle?s walls crumble, its moat dry up, and to leave its towers without archers.Syria is not entirely unprepared, however, and its ally Iran is actively building a model that could serve as an example for other nations to follow in securing their information and communication networks. Additionally, the measures used by NATO to subvert sovereign nations in their pursuit of corporate-financier motivated regime change across the planet, can just as easily boomerang back at these very corporations and financial institutions, slaying them with their own sword.Countermeasures and Defensive Initiatives.One of the many considerations and motivations behind the?very creation of the Internet?was its decentralized nature, and its ability to survive catastrophic attacks and still function. A?subject of study by the RAND Corporation, the distributed nature of the Internet was seen as being superior to that of conventional, centralized communication architectures. However, the utility of such a network is still determined by who controls the flow of information at nodes and bottlenecks within the system.Iran has been working on?the creation of a nationwide intranet, independent of the Internet, in a bid to break the monopoly the West has been increasingly building over the years. By developing an indigenous network, Iran has the ability to isolate the country from attempts to use the Internet to undermine the nation politically and economically and control the nodes and bottlenecks within its borders.While the Western media portrays Iran?s move as unreasonable, Western tech-firms are confirmed to be openly collaborating with Western governments in their bid to manipulate, undermine, and overthrow targeted nations, especially Iran. When we consider the disingenuous reasons behind the West?s confrontation with Iran, best articulated in Washington?s own policy think-tank, the Brookings Institution and their ?Which Path to Persia?? report, the danger Iran truly faces becomes all the more obvious.Image: Movement.org?s 2011 sponsor page. Since then, Google and the US State Department?have since removed?mention of their involvement, but Movement?s own annual reports (2008,?2009,?2010) still retain mention their sponsorship and role over the years.?.Internet giant Google, for instance, has been openly working with the US State Department in their corporate-financier motivated interventions around the world, from Egypt to Tunisia, from Libya to Syria. It was revealed that as early as 2008, Google, along with AT&T, Howcast, and Facebook?were collaborating with the US State Department?via Movements.org to train, equip, and organize protesters ahead of the ?Arab Spring? in 2011. The West?s governments and media would feign ignorance and surprise when widespread unrest finally swept the Arab World, when in reality it had been meticulously planned for years.

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