Monthly Newsletter - The Internet Society on Egypt?s Internet shutdown. Egypt's Internet Crackdown. The Mubarak regime shut down Internet and cell phone communications before launching a violent crackdown against political protesters (watch Free Press' Timothy Karr discuss the use of technology in Egypt in the video to the right). Free Press has discovered that an American company — Boeing-owned Narus of Sunnyvale, CA — had sold Egypt "Deep Packet Inspection" (DPI) equipment that can be used to help the regime track, target and crush political dissent over the Internet and mobile phones.
Narus is selling this spying technology to other regimes with deplorable human rights records. The power to control the Internet and the resulting harm to democracy are so disturbing that the threshold for using DPI must be very high. That’s why, before DPI becomes more widely used around the world and at home, the U.S. government must establish clear and legitimate criteria for preventing the use of such surveillance and control technology. Dear Member of Congress, Egypt Shut Down Its Net With a Series of Phone Calls | Threat Level. Traffic to Egypt fell to a trickle, after the country's decision to shut off the net on Thursday, according to this graphic from Arbor Network.
Reprinted with permission from Arbor Network Egypt’s largest ISPs shut off their networks Thursday, making it impossible for traffic to get to websites hosted in Egypt or for Egyptians to use e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak also ordered the shut down of mobile phone networks, including one run by the U.K. -based Vodafone, all in an attempt to undermine the growing protests over Mubarak’s autocratic rule of the country. While the world has seen net filtering and disruption in places like Burma and Iran following social and political unrests, Egypt’s decision to shutter it is different, according to Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist at Arbor Networks, a computer security firm that has nearly unequaled real data on international internet traffic.
“What’s different with Egypt is the scale,” Labovitz told Wired.com. Comment le quai d’Orsay considère Internet… Addendum du 29 janvier, 20h15 : les brèves du 26 27 28 janvier sont enfin disponibles sur le site de l’ambassade. Ceci dit, chaque brève contient deux liens qui ne sont pas clicables, et d’ailleurs l’un d’entre eux contient un espace de trop qui le rend inutilisable… Je les reproduis ici après correction : Nous sommes le vendredi 28 janvier 2011. Il est 23h27. La situation en Egypte est tendue. Le gouvernement a totalement fermé Internet. J’ai twitté quelques sites, dont celui qui montrait les rares vidéos qui passaient le filtre, où l’on voit manifestement les forces de l’ordre reculer devant la force des foules.
Tout le monde se souvient de l’attitude récente de l’ambassadeur de France en Tunisie, qui déclarait que la situation était sous contrôle. Ceci dit, à quelques jours d’intervalles, on pouvait espérer faire mieux. Voici la home page, ce soir à 23h26. Comme si rien ne se passait en Egypte. Passons sur l’excellence de l’analyse, et sur « le suivi permanent ». Les internautes se mobilisent pour le Jour de la Colère égyptien · Global Voices. Ce billet fait partie de notre page spéciale sur les manifestations 2011 en Egypte. Le compte à rebours des manifestations massives à travers l'Egypte a commencé, avec très peu d'information qui transpire du terrain depuis que les autorités égyptiennes ont coupé l'accès à Internet et pratiquement toute autre communication avec le monde extérieur. Ceci dans le but d'étouffer les contestataires, et les internautes craignent le pire. De très importantes manifestations sont prévues dans tout le pays après les prières de ce Vendredi, dans ce qui a été surnommé la Marche du Million d'Egyptiens, pour réclamer des réformes politiques et économiques, et la fin du régime trentenaire de Hosni Moubarak.
Le Jour de la Colère marquera le début du quatrième jour d'une contestation qui a vu la mort, les blessures et l'arrestation de centaines de militants contre le régime et de simple passants. Le graphique montre comment Internet a été étranglé, largement diffusé sur Twitter Kate Doak propose : Egypt shutdown worst in internet history: experts. In Egypt, should Internet access be an inalienable right? Riots and unrest in Egypt have been ongoing all week, but the Internet only seemed to take notice when it affected the Internet. On Friday, news reports revealed that the government had shut down Internet access to its 80 million citizens, also blocking text messaging and mobile services. Access to the outside world was gone, as was the ability to organize protests from within.
Tech blog Mashable.com quickly put up a graphic to help readers visualize the blockage. Online vigilante group Anonymous - most recently in the news for its WikiLeaks hacktivism - threatened to attack the government's portals, anonymously. No Internet? It's a thought so large and abstract as to be nearly unfathomable (How exactly do you "shut down" the Internet? Online communities had similar reactions of revulsion in 2007 when the government of Burma (also known as Myanmar) closed off Internet access - images of protesting monks had begun to leak to the outside world; it didn't look good. Egypt instigates media blackout, police target journalists. Plainclothes police chase what Reuters says is unidentified foreign journalist today in Cairo.
(Reuters /Goran Tomasevic ) New York, January 28, 2011--Egyptian authorities have taken unprecedented measures to block media coverage of widespread protests against the government, which are on their fourth day. CPJ condemns Cairo's news blackout and calls for authorities to immediately restore Internet and mobile phone services, end the targeting of the press, and allow media to conduct their work freely. Since Tuesday, Egypt has witnessed widespread protests against poverty and corruption, and calls for democratic changes. Authorities suspended Internet and mobile phone service, according to news reports and mobile operators, in an attempt to block media coverage and communications between protesters.
"We are deeply disturbed by the government's efforts to impose a media blackout in ," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's and program coordinator. Watching Egypt disappear from the Internet - Internet. Could it be a coincidence? Internet connectivity disappears all the time, for many reasons, almost always accidental. Sometimes, it's a cut optical fiber. A ship might drag its anchor over a submarine cable. It can be very difficult to determine the true extent or origins of any online disruption. To find out what was really going on, I posted a message to a mailing list where many of administrators of the American corner of the Internet discuss day-to-day operations. Were they all seeing a similar drop-off in connectivity to Egypt? At first, the replies were equally anecdotal: someone with a server in Cairo could no longer access it; attempts to reach prominent Egyptian websites were failing.
Tonk's article is somewhat technical, so let me explain the background. At around 5:28 p.m. This is, Labovitz writes, a "graph of Egyptian Internet traffic across a large number of geographically and topologically diverse providers on January 27th. " Protests in Egypt continue despite government shut down of Internet | Science & Technology | Deutsche Welle | 28.01.2011.
On Friday, Egyptians woke up to discover that they no longer had access to the Internet, thanks to the government which had apparently ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to cease international connections. Though one ISP was left operating on Friday, James Cowie of the US-based Internet analysis firm Renesys reported on its blog that "virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.
" However, by Tuesday morning, February 1, the remaining ISP, Noor, went offline as well. While there have been Internet slowdowns, and the temporary removal of a China province from the Internet, only on a few occasions has a country been temporarily taken completely offline - Nepal in 2005 and Burma in 2007. "What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80 million people from the Internet? " Cowie wrote. "What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? " No dialtone Mobile phone networks have also been suspended by government order The fight continues.
Egypt Leaves the Internet. Thanks to all for great comments and questions. Please see below for latest updates on the ongoing Egyptian Internet blackout, including some trace-based analysis and a few words about neighboring countries. After this morning we’ll be closing this post out, and looking for the restoration. Hopefully sooner than later. –jim Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet’s global routing table.
This is a completely different situation from the modest Internet manipulation that took place in Tunisia, where specific routes were blocked, or Iran, where the Internet stayed up in a rate-limited form designed to make Internet connectivity painfully slow. Update (3:06 UTC Friday) Egypt/Main Page - We Re-Build. TreeWalk DNS Home. Twitter Confirms That They’re Being Blocked In Egypt. Egypt Mubarak media press censorship: As government pressure mounts on Egypt's media, new technologies offer an out - latimes.com.
Reporting from Cairo — Hisham Kassem crunches over mortar and dust, passes along rough brick walls and steps into his unfinished newsroom, which, if the investors come through, will soon house 100 journalists Twittering and typing out longer tales on the troubled state of the nation. It is a curious time to be starting an independent newspaper in Egypt. The government and politically connected businessmen are pressuring editors, silencing columnists and booting talk show hosts from their perches in the weeks winding down to November's parliamentary elections. The country — viewed by many as a police state percolating through a democracy — is in tumult these days.
Inflation is enraging the public, the ruling National Democratic Party is widely disparaged, and there is growing apprehension over who will eventually succeed President Hosni Mubarak. For the last three decades, the Mubarak government has alternately threatened and tolerated independent media outlets. Le web contre Moubarak | Alexandre Sirois | Afrique. Q Depuis 30 ans, il n'y a jamais eu un tel mouvement de contestation à l'égard du président égyptien Hosni Moubarak. Quel est le sentiment général dans la rue, en Égypte, ces jours-ci?
R Plusieurs des personnes qui manifestaient hier et aujourd'hui n'étaient pas des militants typiques. Elles n'étaient pas politisées auparavant. Elles ont été enhardies par l'expérience. Elles ont affronté la police, les véhicules blindés et les balles de caoutchouc si bravement que tout le monde est resté bouche bée. Mais il y a aussi, très certainement, des gens qui sont terrifiés, car des personnes ont été tuées. Q Que réclament les manifestants? R C'est très simple: ils veulent que Moubarak s'en aille. Q Comment le régime a-t-il réagi jusqu'à maintenant? R Le ministère de l'Intérieur a publié des communiqués dans la presse contrôlée par le gouvernement, notamment pour accuser les manifestants de sabotage. R L'effet domino, dans l'histoire, a été plusieurs fois constaté. #Jan25 #Egypt +++ PLEASE RT +++ 18 Ways to Circumvent the Egyptians Governments' Internet Block - /Via: @AnonymousRx @Warinte l 01] Nour DSL is still working in Egypt, Dial up with 0777 7776 or 07777 666 [02] IP addresses for social media: pass on to peop.
Egyptian Authorities Asked Vodafone to Cut Off Network - Davos Live. By WSJ Staff European Pressphoto Agency Vittorio Colao, Vodafone Group chief executive officer. Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao said “Egyptian authorities” had asked the company to “turn down the network totally.” Mr. Colao said Vodafone determined that the request was legitimate under Egyptian law, and therefore complied with the request. “I hope” the decision will be reversed by Egypt “very soon,” Mr. Earlier Friday, U.K. The move came as the Eygptian government’s crackdown on protesters intensified with access to most forms of mass communication, including the Internet, mobile and SMS shut down. Follow the latest news from Egypt and the region in our Dispatch blog. Twitter Declares, "The Tweets Must Flow" While protests rage on in Egypt, Twitter called for free expression and transparency in a manifesto published on its blog.
Co-written by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and the company's General Counsel and former Google lawyer Alexander Macgillivray, the post casts Twitter as a trustworthy messenger, relaying information between hundreds of millions of users, and only refusing to do so if such messages are illegal or spam. With more than 100 million separate messages transmitted each day, the company says it would be impossible to monitor each and every one.
In addition, Twitter vows to refrain from revealing private information about its users, and when it is required to do so by law, it will attempt to notify those users before handing over their information to the authorities. Meanwhile, Twitter communication is nearly a moot point in Egypt, where there were some reports of cellphone service returning, but Internet service was still shut down today, according to The New York Times. Internet role in Egypt's protests. 9 February 2011Last updated at 06:00 By Anne Alexander University of Cambridge Footage of protests filmed on mobile phones has been aired back to the world by satellite channels A few days after the fall of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a Jordanian newspaper printed a joke apparently doing the rounds in Egypt: "Why do the Tunisian youth 'demonstrate' in the streets, don't they have Facebook?
" Only six days later, protests across Egypt co-ordinated by a loose coalition of opposition groups - many of which are very largely organised through Facebook - seemed to prove this cynicism wrong. Certainly, the Egyptian government reacted quickly: blocking social media sites and mobile phone networks before pulling the plug on Egypt's access to the internet. This act of censorship was spectacularly unsuccessful. Friday 28 January saw literally millions take control of the streets in an epic "Day of Rage". Broad spectrum For the current generation some of these spaces have been online.