the day the internet died .. internet blackout in the America Egypt
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the day the internet died .. internet blackout in the America Egypt
The internet in Egypt was killed this morning.
Renesys' network sensors showed that Egypt's four primary Internet providers -- Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr -- went dark at 12:34 a.m., Friday Jan 28 2011. Those companies shuttle all Internet traffic into and out of Egypt. The entire country vanished from the WWW. All devices are affected, from mobile cell phones to computers of every sort, with one exception: satellite phones.
When countries are merely blocking certain sites, like Google, Twitter, or Facebook, protesters can use "proxy" computers to circ umvent the government censors.
The proxies "anonymize" traffic and bounce it to computers in other countries that send it along to the restricted sites. But when there's no Internet at all, proxies can't work and online communication grinds to a halt.
Although it's unlikely that what's happened in Egypt could happen in the United States because the U.S. has numerous Internet providers and ways of connecting to the Internet. Coordinating a simultaneous shutdown would be a massive undertaking .. or is it?
For months, the idea of a single "kill switch" to turn the Internet ON/OFF has attracted some American lawmakers (US Congress), who have been pushing for REGULATION and the power to control the Internet in a national emergency.
The outage sets a new precedent for other countries grappling with paralyzing political protests, complete blackout.
Other countries have done partial censorship, filtering, and attempted partial blackouts with little success: China, Burma, Iran, etc... This seems to be the 1st complete and successful blackout intended on paralyzing political protests.
A government can control where the outages are targeted, so its military/government facilities, can stay online while the Internet vanishes for everybody else.
This is without a doubt, an unprecedented event in Internet history.
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Renesys' network sensors showed that Egypt's four primary Internet providers -- Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr -- went dark at 12:34 a.m., Friday Jan 28 2011. Those companies shuttle all Internet traffic into and out of Egypt. The entire country vanished from the WWW. All devices are affected, from mobile cell phones to computers of every sort, with one exception: satellite phones.
When countries are merely blocking certain sites, like Google, Twitter, or Facebook, protesters can use "proxy" computers to circ umvent the government censors.
The proxies "anonymize" traffic and bounce it to computers in other countries that send it along to the restricted sites. But when there's no Internet at all, proxies can't work and online communication grinds to a halt.
Although it's unlikely that what's happened in Egypt could happen in the United States because the U.S. has numerous Internet providers and ways of connecting to the Internet. Coordinating a simultaneous shutdown would be a massive undertaking .. or is it?
For months, the idea of a single "kill switch" to turn the Internet ON/OFF has attracted some American lawmakers (US Congress), who have been pushing for REGULATION and the power to control the Internet in a national emergency.
The outage sets a new precedent for other countries grappling with paralyzing political protests, complete blackout.
Other countries have done partial censorship, filtering, and attempted partial blackouts with little success: China, Burma, Iran, etc... This seems to be the 1st complete and successful blackout intended on paralyzing political protests.
A government can control where the outages are targeted, so its military/government facilities, can stay online while the Internet vanishes for everybody else.
This is without a doubt, an unprecedented event in Internet history.
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Last edited by stomper; Jan 29, 2011 at 06:11 PM.
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