Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/technology/16internet.html
>
> There has been intense debate both inside and outside Egypt on whether the
> > cutoff at 26 Ramses Street was accomplished by surgically tampering with the
> > software mechanism that defines how networks at the core of the Internet
> > communicate with one another, or by a blunt approach: simply cutting off the
> > power to the router computers that connect Egypt to the outside world.

I do remember some intense debate, here and elsewhere, but I somehow don't remember those as being the primary debate 
parameters. 

Regards
Marshall


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