Disruptions in Afghanistan Internet Infrastructure After Taliban Takeover
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Timeline and measurements show Afghanistan’s Internet shifts since August 2021: Greynoise data records a surge in traffic during Kabul’s fall, then a plateau in mobile usage and 100,000 fewer reachable nodes overall; reports of regional blackouts increase while nick.af goes offline even though WHOIS and domain registrations still work. Pro-Taliban social accounts mushroom, 70% of journalists stop working, botnet scanning from Afghan IPs rises, and national-scale censorship is reported as intent but not yet operational.
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