Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoHow can leaders of a country like Russia or Iran or whomever shut down the internet? Is there not some hacker or cracker way to open it back up?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareHow can leaders of a country like Russia or Iran or whomever shut down the internet? Is there not some hacker or cracker way to open it back up?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareMunkisquisher@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoThey are shutting down the ISPs so that people can’t communicate within the same town and organise protests, it’s not just disconnecting from the wider web. They’re also using military jamming equipment on starlink frequencies too.
They are shutting down the ISPs so that people can’t communicate within the same town and organise protests, it’s not just disconnecting from the wider web.
They’re also using military jamming equipment on starlink frequencies too.