LDTate Posted January 28, 2011 ID:380680 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Egypt goes dark...- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110128/ap_on_...internet_outageJan 28, 2011 - "About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead. Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule, experts said. Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the Internet to try and silence dissent..."- http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-...-internet.shtml- http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10324Last Updated: 2011-01-28 09:08:50 UTC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sho-dan Posted January 28, 2011 ID:380720 Share Posted January 28, 2011 ah, the ultimate Big Brother squeeze. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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