Posted on 01/28/2011 10:02:16 PM PST by americanophile
IDG News Service - "When countries block, we evolve," an activist with the group We Rebuild wrote in a Twitter message on Friday.
That's just what many Egyptians have been doing this week, as groups like We Rebuild scramble to keep the country connected to the outside world, turning to landline telephones, fax machines and even ham radio to keep information flowing in and out of the country.
Although one Internet service provider -- Noor Group -- remains in operation, Egypt's government abruptly ordered the rest of the country's ISPs to shut down their services just after midnight local time Thursday. Mobile networks have also been turned off in some areas.
The blackout appears designed to disrupt organization of the country's growing protest movement, which is calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
"[B]asically, there are three ways of getting information out right now -- get access to the Noor ISP (which has about 8% of the market), use a land line to call someone, or use dial-up," Jillian York, a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, said via e-mail.
Egyptians with dial-up modems get no Internet connection when they call into their local ISP, but calling an international number to reach a modem in another country gives them a connection to the outside world.
We Rebuild is looking to expand those dial-up options. It has set up a dial-up phone number in Sweden and is compiling a list of other numbers Egyptians can call. It is also distributing information about its activities on a Wiki page.
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Wonder why are usurper wants the off switch?
Newest billionare will be born from this. Wish it was me!
Revolutions happen when the ruling elite is corrupt, dispirited and divided and has lost the will to rule. This was true in China, Cuba and Iran where for one reason or another, the dictators lost their capacity to hold on to the support of the army and put down protests. Egypt now looks set to face the same scenario. Mubarak can survive but only if he is prepared to use massive force to crush the protests and re-instill fear in the populace. If he cannot do it, his days are numbered.
There’s an interesting how-to article on Wired.com, have a look. Sorry I can’t post it: it’s on the “forbidden” copyright list on the FR home page.
Seen it, and a good read. I find that magazine quite interesting.
And you and they think the mossies will put up with that after they take over.
...that is interesting. Thanks.
Oh no, it’s all over if the Islamists take over.
You got linky?
It will be for a lot of school kids.
No link, sorry.
“These publishers have asked us not to allow any material at all to be posted to FR:
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* wired.com”
Go to Wired.com, story is on the top page, look on the right-hand side for the “how to” story.
(Ha-ha!)
Very cool, thanks. Enterprising people could even broadcast TCP/IP over the air via CB and shortwave if they desire.
If the U.S. govt shuts down the internet they will grind business to a halt. Everything from simple email communication to sales to financial markets transmission of data are internet dependent.
bad poster!
Thanks
LOL
Early on we had networked BBS’s with messages passed around the world by each site taking the feed from one station and then passing it along to 3 or 4 more ... you could get an answer within 24 hours from across the world ... oldtimers want to chime in? ;-)
I’ll also add that broadcasting internet protocol could involve spread spectrum comms, either multifrequency or frequency hopping.
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