Egypt’s Autocrats Exploited Internet’s Weaknesses. What The Trend: Week In Review. What Role Have Multinationals Played in Egypt’s Communication Shutdown? When the Egyptian government created a partial communications blackout on Thursday, shutting Internet and cell-phone service, it asked for the cooperation of foreign mobile phone companies.
UK-based Vodafone complied, saying it had no choice but to cut service. In a statement issued Saturday, Vodafone said the Egyptian government would have been able to shut the network itself anyway, all within the bounds of Egyptian law. Mobinil, another major provider, which is owned in part by France Telecom, also complied. Did they have any choice? "We don't know," said Cynthia Wong, of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Other reports suggest the government, at least in Egypt, likely could have shut down the system whether providers cooperated or not. Vodafone may have been implying that Egypt would do just that if the company didn't comply, saying a government shutdown would have meant a longer shutdown.
What the Return of the Internet in Egypt Looks Like so Far - Advertising Age - The Media Guy. L'Egypte coupée d'Internet. Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play. Legislation granting the president internet-killing powers is to be re-introduced soon to a Senate committee, the proposal’s chief sponsor told Wired.com on Friday.
The resurgence of the so-called “kill switch” legislation came the same day Egyptians faced an internet blackout designed to counter massive demonstrations in that country. The bill, which has bipartisan support, is being floated by Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The proposed legislation, which Collins said would not give the president the same power Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is exercising to quell dissent, sailed through the Homeland Security Committee in December but expired with the new Congress weeks later. The bill is designed to protect against “significant” cyber threats before they cause damage, Collins said. The timing of when the legislation would be re-introduced was not immediately clear, as kinks to it are being worked out. See Also: Egypt falls off the Internet. Click for latest updates: Last updated at January 31, 21:00 UTC Different media are reporting that Internet and other forms of electronic communications are being disrupted in Egypt.
Presumably after a government order in response to the protests. Looking at BGP data we can confirm that according to our analysis 88% of the ‘Egyptian Internet’ has fallen of the Internet. In this post I’ll share some observations I made with regards to the reachability of Egyptian networks and providers. What’s different in this case as compared to other ‘similar’ cases is that all of the major ISP’s seem to be almost completely offline. Networks affected Egyptian Routes When looking at the data it’s clear that many Egyptian networks have fallen off the Internet. Below you’ll find a table with the top 10 providers in Egypt. As you can see in the table below, right now most autonomous systems (ISP’s) are no longer announcing any, or at the very least, significantly less prefixes.
When did this start? Coupure de l'Internet en Égypte. Première rédaction de cet article le 28 janvier 2011Dernière mise à jour le 2 février 2011 Quelques jours après que je publie un article posant la question « Peut-on éteindre l'Internet », le dictateur Moubarak a décidé d'illustrer un des points de l'article : oui, on peut couper l'Internet localement, pendant un temps relativement long (au moins plusieurs jours).
L'Égypte a donc été presque totalement privée d'Internet du 28 janvier au 2 février. Comme d'habitude lors de ce genre d'événements, on ne sait pas grand'chose, ce qui n'empêche pas les informations erronées. Ainsi, un article de la BBC explique que la coupure s'est faite sur la base du DNS, ce qu'aucun fait observé ne permet de dire. Bien au contraire, le phénomène, vu de l'extérieur, montre que la censure a frappé plus bas, du côté des couches 1 à 3. Le ! Pour une présentation générale du problème en français, l'article de 20 minutes est satisfaisant. J'avais parlé du domaine de tête.eg.
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