@oliverlinow.bsky.social
Internet Freedom Specialist at Deutsche Welle (DW)
Since yesterday, the Taliban in Afghanistan have shut down the internet. Without the internet, many people are severely restricted in their daily lives. @ioda.live is a reliable source for tracking internet shutdowns. The measurement data is completely transparent and therefore quotable.
30.09.2025 08:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The shutdown is still ongoing!
30.09.2025 06:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blackout in Afghanistan as Taliban orders internet service downed at 12:38 UTC (5:08pm local).
Earlier this month, Taliban banned fiber optic internet in a rural province to “prevent immorality.” This shutdown follows brief national outage minutes earlier from 11:33 to 11:53 UTC.
What is the impact? ...from Putin's perspective. What comes next?
14.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration of the timeline of shutdowns during the uprising in Bangladesh in 2024.
⚡️ Today, we published a report documenting the shutdowns during the student uprising in #Bangladesh last year.
🔗 ooni.org/post/2025-ba...
Together with Digitally Right, we compiled a comprehensive timeline of blocks, outages, and political events that happened in the 22 days of the uprising.
LEO satellite operator Starlink currently experiencing a total outage beginning at 19:13 UTC today. #Starlinkdown
No word yet on cause of the outage.
Satellite #Internet provider Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause.
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"Keine unabhängigen Medien mehr in Aserbaidschan?" Zu sehen ist der Aserbaidschanische Präsident Ilham Aliyev. Mit triumphierendem Blick läuft er über einen roten Teppich. Er trägt einen Anzug.
Aserbaidschan verschärft das Mediengesetz erneut: Ausländischen Redaktionen droht Schließung, Presseagenturen brauchen 20 lokale Abos – in einem Land ohne unabhängige Medien. RSF fordert: Gesetz zurücknehmen, Journalist*innen freilassen!
#Pressefreiheit #Azerbaijan
⚡️ BREAKING: Zelensky announces next prime minister, launches government reshuffle.
"I have proposed that Yuliia Svyrydenko lead the Government of Ukraine and significantly renew its work," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
For more information on the situation in Iran, follow @ammir.bsky.social and his colleagues at @filter.watch:
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To put this in context, today's drop is in addition to the drop in traffic levels observed on June 13th.
17.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
As we hear reports of mobile Internet shutdown in Iran, IODA measurements are showing loss of connectivity on mobile networks IranCell (AS44244) and RighTel (AS57218).
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TikTok has breached EU rules for failing to disclose sufficient information about advertising on the platform, the European Commission said today.
15.05.2025 10:18 — 👍 71 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 3Teile der Trump Regierung nutzten einen israelischen Signal Clone mit eingebauter Backdoor für sensible Chats. Hierüber wurden komplette Chatverläufe unverschlüsselt an Server in der AWS Cloud übertragen. Wer welche Informationen abgegriffen hat ist unbekannt. Das war vermutlich nur der Anfang...
06.05.2025 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data micahflee.com/despite-misl...
06.05.2025 20:00 — 👍 776 🔁 325 💬 23 📌 88Kommerziell ist allerdings falsch. Signal ist eine Stiftung, Non-Profit. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...
03.04.2025 21:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/mm?dateRange=7d
Only a limited amount of information is coming out of #Myanmar following the heavy #earthquake. Publicly available measurement data from @radar.cloudflare.com shows a significant drop in internet traffic in the country. This indicates that parts of the infrastructure has been destroyed.
01.04.2025 12:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The drop in internet connectivity is still ongoing after the #earthquake this morning in #myanmar ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/MM
28.03.2025 09:49 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
https://radar.cloudflare.com/as9988?dateRange=1d https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/9988
There is not much information from #Myanmar after the #earthquake with the epicenter near the 2nd largest city, Mandalay. The internet is partly disrupted. This is shown by data from @ioda.live, @radar.cloudflare.com, e.g. from the provider MPT. Internet restrictions makes it harder to report.
28.03.2025 08:08 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
In den Koalitionsverhandlungen fordert die Union, das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abzuschaffen. Verhandlungsführer bei diesem Thema ist ausgerechnet Philipp Amthor. Durch das besagte Gesetz wurden Dokumente von Amthors Augustus-Intelligence-Skandal öffentlich. #IFG
netzpolitik.org/2025/koaliti...
Of course, @signal.org is secure, even if you join a chat from a 🇷🇺 network, because it has a proofed end-to-end-encryption. Interesting that the US Gov is using Signal. It was founded with the support of the @opentechfund.bsky.social. One of the USAGM organizations whose funding Trump has frozen.
25.03.2025 21:48 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations By Bill Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Kate Robertson, Astrid Perry, Rebekah Brown, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Siena Anstis, and Ron Deibert March 19, 2025 Clicca qui per leggere un riassunto del report in italiano. Key Findings Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware called Graphite. The company differentiates itself by claiming it has safeguards to prevent the kinds of spyware abuses that NSO Group and other vendors are notorious for. Infrastructure Analysis of Paragon Spyware. Based on a tip from a collaborator, we mapped out server infrastructure that we attribute to Paragon’s Graphite spyware tool. We identified a subset of suspected Paragon deployments, including in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore. Identifying a Possible Canadian Paragon Customer. Our investigation surfaced potential links between Paragon Solutions and the Canadian Ontario Provincial Police, and found evidence of a growing ecosystem of spyware capability among Ontario-based police services. Helping WhatsApp Catch a Zero-Click. We shared our analysis of Paragon’s infrastructure with Meta, who told us that the details were pivotal to their ongoing investigation into Paragon. WhatsApp discovered and mitigated an active Paragon zero-click exploit, and later notified over 90 individuals who it believed were targeted, including civil society members in Italy. Please drop me a reply or note letting me know if this alt text helps you.
Android Forensic Analysis: Italian Cluster. We forensically analyzed multiple Android phones belonging to Paragon targets in Italy (an acknowledged Paragon user) who were notified by WhatsApp. We found clear indications that spyware had been loaded into WhatsApp, as well as other apps on their devices. A Related Case of iPhone Spyware in Italy. We analyzed the iPhone of an individual who worked closely with confirmed Android Paragon targets. This person received an Apple threat notification in November 2024, but no WhatsApp notification. Our analysis showed an attempt to infect the device with novel spyware in June 2024. We shared details with Apple, who confirmed they had patched the attack in iOS 18. Other Surveillance Tech Deployed Against The Same Italian Cluster. We also note 2024 warnings sent by Meta to several individuals in the same organizational cluster, including a Paragon victim, suggesting the need for further scrutiny into other surveillance technology deployed against these individuals. Please drop me a note /reply letting me know if this alt text helps you.
🚨NEW REPORT: first forensic confirmation of #Paragon mercenary spyware infections in #Italy...
Known targets: Activists & journalists.
We also found deployments around the world. Including ... #Canada?
And a lot more... Thread on our @citizenlab.ca investigation 1/
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
@opentechfund.bsky.social President: Once we lose a user from one of our VPNs, particularly in China, it is almost impossible to get them back. This has clear consequences for any future U.S. government effort to reach people behind authoritarian firewalls.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
It seems that WhatsApp and Signal are also blocked in #Turkey. @ooni.org data shows that the blockings are not implemented by all Provider in 🇹🇷. Considering that for many people, digital communication is extremely important in daily life, blocking it is a serious violation of fundamental rights.
20.03.2025 07:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
But in #Turkey in specific, people know how to help themselves and are immediately looking for solutions to bypass the blockings. VPNs are helpful. But proxies can also help. DW, for example, has been blocked in Turkey since 2022 and can be accessed via www.dwturkce1.com.
19.03.2025 08:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Turkey starts blocking platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X. Data from @ooni.org indicates that the first internet providers (not all!) in the country are implementing the blocking at around 5 a.m. today. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoğlu, was arrested in Turkey today.
19.03.2025 07:52 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
