The entire country of Syria went offline on May 7-8, 2013, for about 19-20 hours. What can we learn from this event?

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2013/05/syrian-internet-fragility.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/08/how-did-syria-cut-off-the-entire-country-from-the-internet/

http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/05/07/breaking-news-traffic-from-syria-disappears-from-internet/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/why-did-syria-shut-down-the-internet.html