Visualize the internet blackout in Egpyt

[Agorism]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/28/this-is-what-egypts-cutoff-from-the-net-looks-like_n_815335.html

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/242150/EGYPTS-INTERNET-BLACKOUT.jpg


Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air. [...] Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.

[PermanentSleep]

Such bullshit.

[VBRonPaulFan]

hopefully when the rioting is over all those authoritarian assholes will be 'missing'.

[__27__]

hopefully when the rioting is over all those authoritarian assholes will be 'missing'.

Violence only begets violence. This is the kind of talk that allows TPTB to marginalize a movement as "wacko extremist" to the masses.

[HOLLYWOOD]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html

The open Internet's role in popular uprising is now undisputed. Look no further than Egypt, where the Mubarak regime today reportedly shut down Internet (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg) and cell phone communications (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/vodefone-idUSWLA398020110128) -- a troubling predictor of the fierce crackdown that has followed.
What's even more troubling is news that one American company is aiding Egypt's harsh response (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/opposition-leaders-arrested-in-egypt/141743-2.html) through sales of technology that makes this repression possible.
The power of open networks is clear. The Internet's favorite offspring -- Twitter, Facebook and YouTube -- are now heralded on CNN, BBC and Fox News as flag-bearers for a new era of citizen journalism and activism. (More and more these same news organizations have abandoned their own, more traditional means of newsgathering to troll social media for breaking information.)


But the open Internet's power cuts both ways: The tools that connect, organize and empower protesters can also be used to hunt them down.
Telecom Egypt, the nation's dominant phone and Internet service provider, is a state-run enterprise, which made it easy on Friday morning for authorities to pull the plug and plunge much of the nation into digital darkness.



Moreover, Egypt also has the ability to spy on Internet and cell phone users, by opening their communication packets and reading their contents. Iran used similar methods during the 2009 unrest to track, imprison and in some cases, "disappear (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,ANNUALREPORT,IRN,,4c21f67024,0.html)" truckloads of cyber-dissidents.


The companies that profit from sales of this technology need to be held to a higher standard. One in particular is an American firm, Narus (http://www.narus.com/index.php/about) of Sunnyvale, Calif., which has sold Telecom Egypt "real-time traffic intelligence" equipment.



Narus, now owned by Boeing, was founded in 1997 by Israeli security experts (http://www.haaretz.com/news/ori-cohen-private-eye-1.192771) to create and sell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus) mass surveillance systems for governments and large corporate clients.
The company is best known for creating NarusInsight (http://cryptogon.com/?p=877), a supercomputer system which is allegedly used by the National Security Agency and other entities to perform mass surveillance and monitoring of public and corporate Internet communications in real time.


Narus provides Egypt Telecom (http://www.narus.com/index.php/about) with Deep Packet Inspection equipment (DPI), a content-filtering technology (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/att-promises-not-to-spy-o_b_134239.html) that allows network managers to inspect, track and target content from users of the Internet and mobile phones, as it passes through routers on the information superhighway.
Other Narus global customers include the national telecommunications authorities in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- two countries that regularly register alongside Egypt near the bottom of Human Rights Watch's world report (http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2010).

[libertybrewcity]

How can this be overcome? This will obviously be a major problem in all future revolutions around the world.

[Pericles]

How can this be overcome? This will obviously be a major problem in all future revolutions around the world.
Private cooperative of private networks that agree to pass traffic for each other - just like the NET was originally designed before the big TELCOs decided to be the backbone.

[pcosmar]

Violence only begets violence. This is the kind of talk that allows TPTB to marginalize a movement as "wacko extremist" to the masses.

Actually Peaceful protest begets violence.
This fact has been proven often.

Only submissive compliance is not met by violence.
Usually.

[Pericles]

Actually Peaceful protest begets violence.
This fact has been proven often.

Only submissive compliance is not met by violence.
Usually.

more rep for this poster

[HOLLYWOOD]

GAME ON Robert Gibbs

LIVE FEED C-SPAN: http://c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

[pcosmar]

GAME ON Robert Gibbs

LIVE FEED C-SPAN: http://c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

And quickly becoming the laughing stock of the world.

@TheOnion: U.S. Press Sec'y Gibbs: I'm Sorry, Which US-Supported Brutal Dictatorship Are We Referring To?

[puppetmaster]

Actually Peaceful protest begets violence.
This fact has been proven often.

Only submissive compliance is not met by violence.
Usually.

double repachino

what the hell did I just type?

LOL