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Natural disasters and government interference: examining Q2 2026’s major Internet disruption events
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The report illustrates that fundamentally different events—typhoons, earthquakes, state-mandated blackouts, and DNSSEC failures—produce nearly identical connectivity footprints, meaning operators cannot distinguish root causes from traffic telemetry alone. For engineers designing resilient systems, the recurring pattern underscores the need for redundancy across power, routing, and physical paths to absorb both predictable infrastructure failures and deliberate government actions.
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku near Guam caused the quarter's longest outage, dropping territory traffic by as much as 80% over two days in mid-April.
Iran partially restored Internet access in late May after an 88-day national blackout, with traffic stabilizing around 59% of pre-shutdown levels rather than fully normalizing.
Faulty DNSSEC signature distribution in Germany and a submarine cable cut in Saint Lucia demonstrated that protocol-level and physical-layer failures can disrupt connectivity just as severely as natural disasters.
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