Re: Egypt Unplugs Itself from the Internet

[Martin Hepworth <maxsec () gmail com>]

On 28 January 2011 07:40, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Les Bell <lesbell () lesbell com au>
> wrote:
> > >
> http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/the-day-part-of-the-internet-died-egypt-goes-dark-20110128-1a86k.html
> > > A bit drastic - probably suicidal in a more developed economy.
> >
> > For what it's worth, there have been several great technical articles
> > about this already:
> >
> > http://bgpmon.net/blog/?p=450
> > http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
> >
> > Also, more mainstream:
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20029857-245.html
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/27/national/a221452S55.DTL
> >
>
> Also: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029862-281.html
>
> - ferg
Seen on twitter..

"****The** **government** **can** **take** **away** **my** **freedom**, ****
but** **if** **they** **take** **away** **my** **internet** **porn**, ****
they**'**re** **going** **down**."

!

 --
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

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