Iraqi Internet Experiencing 'Strange' Outages

What reportedly began as an effort by the Iraqi government to prevent cheating on national school exams has grown into an unexplained series of periodic, regular cuts to Internet access across that nation. Beginning on June 27 at 5 a.m. local time, access to the Internet across Iraq was sudden and drastically reduced, effectively shutting down Iraq’s Internet. As detailed by Dyn Research, an Internet services company, the service cut lasted exactly three hours, and full access was...

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