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In the midst of a second nationwide power outage in Venezuela, the vast majority of the country is engulfed in a massive internet outage. The first electrical blackout, which swept across the nation on Thursday, left Venezuela with only two percent connectivity amid the ongoing presidential crisis. Most of the country has been offline since Thursday with limited or no connectivity being reported across large swaths of the South American nation. The NetBlocks Group, a private internet watchdog organization based in the UK, reported on Saturday that 96 percent of the country was offline:
The group provided an update on Sunday noting that 20 percent now have connectivity.
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“Venezuela experiences frequent power cuts, and Venezuela started power rationing and reduced its electricity consumption to about 14,000 megawatts at peak hours because of the economic crisis in 2018,” NetBlocks said. “However the nationwide outages are unprecedented in magnitude, extent and duration. NetBlocks historic data suggest that incidents of this scale are vanishingly rare.”
What a total mess. Here's the kicker... Maduro blames the U.S. for this.
Maduro, an anti-American conspiracy theorist, blamed the U.S. for the blackout, insisting that the electrical grid had been “hacked” and “sabotaged.” He claimed, without providing evidence, that an “international cyber-attack” carried out by the U.S. government and opposition forces was to blame for the ongoing outages.
“The electrical warfare announced and directed by the imperialist United States against our people will be defeated,” Maduro tweeted Friday. “I call for maximum unity patriots!”
Twitter is obviously functioning for Maduro... none of their people could read his Tweet when he posted it.
It is, however, a good reminder that the internet is more fragile and susceptible to disaster than most of us acknowledge. Another reason that people should think twice about giving up their landlines, or having only people's emails but not their telephone numbers or addresses.
It is, however, a good reminder that the internet is more fragile and susceptible to disaster than most of us acknowledge. Another reason that people should think twice about giving up their landlines, or having only people's emails but not their telephone numbers or addresses.
Or you could just avoid living in socialist crap holes.
It is, however, a good reminder that the internet is more fragile and susceptible to disaster than most of us acknowledge. Another reason that people should think twice about giving up their landlines, or having only people's emails but not their telephone numbers or addresses.
Doesn't happen often... but just noting that we agree on something.
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Originally Posted by andywire
Or you could just avoid living in socialist crap holes.
This is why I love it when the US just ignores these places.
How many tin-pot dictators have used the US as a scapegoat for their own failings over the years?
Hey, we know our own government is bad and does things they shouldn't etc....blames other places where possible etc.
Well, other countries are no different and they control the press and can actually jail and kill people instead of just whine about them on twitter while equally big fools compare the two as equivalent.
Another reason that people should think twice about giving up their landlines,
Copper phone line could be just as susceptible to failure during a wide spread power outage like this. The internet may not be quite as reliable but it's pretty close. In my experience I've never lost internet during a power failure. You need a small UPS to power the modem and the router. Depending on the size of the UPS and how you use it it can go for hours to days. Even a real small one will give you many hours of phone opeation. Also make sure you have one phone that does not require power to operate, easiest way to find out is pull the plug. The phone issue applies to any type of service.
Or you could just avoid living in socialist crap holes.
LOL. Do you imagine it's not possible for an authoritarian right-wing president or an attack from hackers from a foreign power to take down your internet?
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Originally Posted by thecoalman
Copper phone line could be just as susceptible to failure during a wide spread power outage like this. The internet may not be quite as reliable but it's pretty close. In my experience I've never lost internet during a power failure. You need a small UPS to power the modem and the router. Depending on the size of the UPS and how you use it it can go for hours to days. Even a real small one will give you many hours of phone opeation. Also make sure you have one phone that does not require power to operate, easiest way to find out is pull the plug. The phone issue applies to any type of service.
Based on my experience with blackouts, my landline always worked perfectly, because it required no electricity.
In the midst of a second nationwide power outage in Venezuela, the vast majority of the country is engulfed in a massive internet outage. The first electrical blackout, which swept across the nation on Thursday, left Venezuela with only two percent connectivity amid the ongoing presidential crisis. Most of the country has been offline since Thursday with limited or no connectivity being reported across large swaths of the South American nation. The NetBlocks Group, a private internet watchdog organization based in the UK, reported on Saturday that 96 percent of the country was offline:
The group provided an update on Sunday noting that 20 percent now have connectivity.
...
“Venezuela experiences frequent power cuts, and Venezuela started power rationing and reduced its electricity consumption to about 14,000 megawatts at peak hours because of the economic crisis in 2018,” NetBlocks said. “However the nationwide outages are unprecedented in magnitude, extent and duration. NetBlocks historic data suggest that incidents of this scale are vanishingly rare.”
What a total mess. Here's the kicker... Maduro blames the U.S. for this.
Maduro, an anti-American conspiracy theorist, blamed the U.S. for the blackout, insisting that the electrical grid had been “hacked” and “sabotaged.” He claimed, without providing evidence, that an “international cyber-attack” carried out by the U.S. government and opposition forces was to blame for the ongoing outages.
“The electrical warfare announced and directed by the imperialist United States against our people will be defeated,” Maduro tweeted Friday. “I call for maximum unity patriots!”
Twitter is obviously functioning for Maduro... none of their people could read his Tweet when he posted it.
They can’t even keep the lights on. Yep socialism is so wonderful.
Socialists starts blaming other countries when they run out of money from their own citizens...
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