dwhyte85 Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvI2oO9iuhTRHX9JMrvTOQLnMmXfxdZqh2VogubGyapzpSNMjgKQ&t=1 I've wanted to use that for ages, sorry. 1
Little-Miss Posted January 28, 2011 Author Posted January 28, 2011 HA! Well if thats the case, im glad i pleased someone!
vikpaw Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 ah, yup. Get with the picture little-miss Just a little civil unrest: BBC News - Egypt: Mubarak sacks cabinet and defends security role BBC News - Egypt unrest It's the kind of thing you'd expect in china, pretty shocking. I can see that they could so easily do that here too, we have government controlled country level filtering, so they could just black list all sites, and effectively cut us off from everything if they wanted to stop internal comms.
PiqueABoo Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 Oh.. OK... do you think we can have their IPv4 addresses back if they're not using them? [We're apparently at that historic moment when IANA have no more left to hand out - few days or weeks subject to a bit of bureacracy]
MK-2 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 so just like Emile Heskey, Egypt is also missing the net...... 3
localzuk Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 The shocking thing is that the USA enacted provisions into law to be able to do the exact same thing, at the word of their president. Not to mention Australia disabled mobile phone connectivity for a radius around his motorcade when Bush traveled their. And I'm pretty sure the UK could do it under its laws too. Its appalling that a 'leader' thinks it acceptable to do it really. Hopefully he'll step aside and realise that he is not representing the people. I fear he won't though, and it'll end up with even more violence.
Domino Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 We've a Tunis office, and they quite regularly just have the internet turned off, no warning or anything - it makes for some interesting support calls.. On a more relevant note, the outcry of twitter users about this was quite something - except of course no one in egypt can see them
tech_guy Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 And do you know that Vodafone Egypt turned their services off as well at the behest of the Egyptian government? Disgraceful.
SteveBentley Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I thought the whole point of the internet and how things were routed was that that kind of thing couldn't happen?
localzuk Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I thought the whole point of the internet and how things were routed was that that kind of thing couldn't happen? Well, the issue is that the fibres and ISPs connecting Egypt to the net are few in number, and therefore only take a small amount of effort to disable.
dwhyte85 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) It all has to route through points that are maintained/administered by the baddies. Unless people have a satellite connection, they're offline. In the UK all our data pass by GCHQ eyes... maybe not as foreceful but it's still in place. Edited January 31, 2011 by dwhyte85
Theblacksheep Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) Oppressive government limits freedoms shocker. Had armed guard escorts just to travel between sharm and luxor a few years back. Got a nice picture of a loaded AK just sitting on the front seat of our car. Scarest moment was the guards at cairo after taking a picture asked for money with one hand on their pistol. EDIT: 1k posts! woot. Edited January 31, 2011 by Theblacksheep 1k posts
featured_spectre Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 It happens more than people care to think. On 7/7 all mobile networks in the UK were disabled (apart from emergency services calls) to prevent remote detonation of devices.
wesleyw Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 @Nephilim: I can accept that but to do it for the reason Egypt are isn't right at all.
mjs_mjs Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Rough - I didn't think this was possible but I'm shocked.
aerospacemango Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 That well known thorn in the American side, Michael Moore, has published a dial-up service for Egyptians, with a password and username posted across Twitter. This may help some people get onto the net.
vikpaw Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 It happens more than people care to think. On 7/7 all mobile networks in the UK were disabled (apart from emergency services calls) to prevent remote detonation of devices. you could have used that as a Fact of the Day.
MK-2 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 That well known thorn in the American side, Michael Moore, has published a dial-up service for Egyptians, with a password and username posted across Twitter. This may help some people get onto the net. apart from the fact they need to be online somehow to read the twitter message?
mjs_mjs Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I wonder if their internal 'internet' is down also?
aerospacemango Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 apart from the fact they need to be online somehow to read the twitter message? Indeed....But with a smartphone and tweetdeck.... And lots of RT'ing!
dwhyte85 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 That well known thorn in the American side, Michael Moore, has published a dial-up service for Egyptians, with a password and username posted across Twitter. This may help some people get onto the net. Egypt will be monitoring calls to that number and will be sending a few of the tough guys out to those that use it.
MK-2 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Indeed....But with a smartphone and tweetdeck.... And lots of RT'ing! i thought egypt took down most of the phone networks too?
localzuk Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 i thought egypt took down most of the phone networks too? They did, not to mention that the phone networks connect to the same net connections as the landlines...
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