Internet Myanmar crashes

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Yangon - A big internet attack in Myanmar (former name was Burma) caused a complete shutdown of the internet network in the country. This happened just several days before the elections, which happen every 20 years.

The attack started at the end of October, but got worse in the last couple of days, reports Arbor Networks. The people of Myanmar can vote for a new government this sunday. This is the first election in the country since 1990.

The way the internet attack was carried out, was by sending masses of data to a couple of targets, which couldn't handle it. Computers all over the world were used for this, mostly from normal consumers who have no idea their computer was used for a internet attack.

Myanmar is connected to the world wide web through a network cables and sattelites, who can handle 45megabits of data per second. At the peek of the attack, the network recieved 10 to 15 gigabits of data per second, 100 times more then the internet in Myanmar can handle.

Source (Dutch)

I wonder who's behind this...

 

[Costello]

lol there is only a 45 mbit/s connection for the whole country?

no wonder it was attacked so easily!
even GBAtemp has 20 times more bandwidth than that...

 

[DSGamer64]

I'd like to know why this happened, not to mention why they can only have elections every 20 years rather then 4 like most civilized nations.

 

[Berthenk]

lol there is only a 45 mbit/s connection for the whole country?

no wonder it was attacked so easily!
even GBAtemp has 20 times more bandwidth than that...

Twenty times!? Damn...
Also, I wonder why they attacked...

 

[qlum]

45mbit that's even less than I have at home I officially have 50mbit up/down
but in reality I only get 43 up and 47 down.

 

[Canonbeat234]

4Chan did it for lawlz.

 

[CarbonX13]

lol there is only a 45 mbit/s connection for the whole country?

no wonder it was attacked so easily!
even GBAtemp has 20 times more bandwidth than that...
Lol!!

QUOTE(Berthenk @ Nov 4 2010, 08:04 AM) Twenty times!? Damn...
Also, I wonder why they attacked...

Well, Burma has been under a military dictatorship for a while, and the nation suffers from severe corruption and political turmoil. The attack could've been one of a goal to get against the nation's government.

Either that or its 4chan.

 

[Matthew]

45mbit that's even less than I have at home I officially have 50mbit up/down
but in reality I only get 43 up and 47 down.

I only have a measly 10mbit down and 1mbit up

 

[Ethevion]

Wow lol, once every 20 years. Why would someone want to attack a country like that?

 

[chrisrlink]

4chan? why would they attack myamar no sence since there basicly piracy people there.... or is their more to them than software piracy

 

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