This is most likely the case that Egypt's citizens will be subjected to denial of service by providers cutting off communications networks. I can not help but wonder if one day we will see an Anonymously owned/run internet provider that would remain immune to a single country/region corporate denial of service to citizens? In any case, God bless the citizens of Egypt today in any non violent protests they have the heart to engage in, and may the future provide better citizen communications support structures.
What do you think of this Michael? https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud/page/join-the-cloud-faq https://www.accessnow.org/
Thanks Rockyj. those are very interesting initiatives. Human survival does not tolerate being blocked, lol I hope these become more widely meshed etc..
This vid shows images of the same vid that the protester's posted of a protester being shot. My heart aches but the news is out & spreading! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12303564
This is a start https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud/page/join-the-cloud-faq Like I said before there are some ISP's still operating in Egypt but only a few. The additional bandwidth will help.
FRONT PAGE ON HUFFINGTON POST! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/27/egypt-internet-goes-down-_n_815156.html
It is ironic that corporations go crazy about DDOS attempts, and that is understandable but some, now, deny service to their CLIENTS! Dumbass Denial Of Service is when a company punishes its clients.
What choice do they have? They are being coerced by the Egyptian government. If they don't do what the government tells them, the government will do it for them by force.
Corporations have the money, so they ARE the real government in effect. Politicians are just the puppets, from what I have seen. Look at this Egypt internet access denial blog. "Egypt leaves the internet" Wow! http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
Worth posting here, not using a quote box: Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. 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. At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide. This is a completely different situation from the modest Internet manipulation that took place in Tunisia, where specific routes were blocked, or Iran, where the Internet stayed up in a rate-limited form designed to make Internet connectivity painfully slow. The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map. What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up. We will continue to dig into the event, and will update this story as we learn more. As Friday dawns in Cairo under this unprecedented communications blackout, keep the Egyptian people in your thoughts.
I guess Mubarak may say "Ooops, I accidentally the internet" but we know he deliberately the internet. (meme translations not included)
I am kinda serious about that. What goes down in Egypt will show how much of our world is the internets.
And now we have Lieberman proposing (again) that an internet "kill switch" be available in the US, to mirror what happened in Egypt. Thank god the old fucker isn't running for re-election after this term. I can't imagine why anyone in their right minds ever voted for that freedom-stealing asshole in the first place.
No doubt that when a politician calls for a "kill" switch on the internet, what they mean is "a kill access for all web traffic by non-corporate, non-government individuals, with due exception to any urls where I can watch online porn anonymously" switch.
From a defense standpoint, a "kill switch" provides a great strategic option. Things are never so simple as you seem to think.
Yes, the world will not be thrown into chaos. Rather, it will stride in of it's own accord.. wearing waders.. with holes in them.
At the point where this becomes a 'great strategic option' you have already crossed the rubicon of being illegitimate. What legitimate government would ever require such a drastic measure???
So the way to keep your traffic flowing is to shut down the carriers of that traffic? Have you thought this through?
Hurrr... I saw that movie, Live free or Die Hard... you totally need a government sanctioned "Internet Kill switch" -Herro
That was an excellent documentary that taught me about internets and what to do if an F22 raptor is chasing you. Seriously though. Sometimes isolation is necessary when the shit really hits the fan to regroup.
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