Internet outage: Difference between revisions

An '''Internet outage''' or '''Internet blackout''' or '''Internet shutdown''' is the complete or partial failure of the [[Internet access|internet services]]. It can occur due to [[Internet censorship|censorship]], [[cyberattack]]s, disasters,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Petersen|first1=Hauke|last2=Baccelli|first2=Emmanuel|last3=Wählisch|first3=Matthias|last4=Schmidt|first4=Thomas C.|last5=Schiller|first5=Jochen|title=The Role of the Internet of Things in Network Resilience|journal=Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures|series=Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering|date=27 October 2014|volume=151|pages=283–296|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_39|publisher=Springer, Cham|language=en|arxiv=1406.6614|bibcode=2014arXiv1406.6614P|isbn=978-3-319-19742-5|s2cid=10378226}}</ref> police or security services actions<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/the-personal-and-economic-costfuttfytgytftyufu6tfu6tf6ufutyf7ttft76ftt7f66rf6r5d65rd-of-kashmirs-internet-ban|title='Many lives have been lost': five-month internet blackout plunges Kashmir into crisis|last1=Ellis-Petersen|first1=Hannah|date=2020-01-05|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-01-24|last2=correspondent|first2=a local|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> or errors.