--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote:
>
> It they *dare* try that here all hell *will* break out.

Uh, they won't try that here. Egypt has only four major
Internet access providers, so it's fairly simple to shut
it down. That would be virtually impossible here.


  You will have 
> awakened a large part of the tech community who *will* not take it 
> kindly and provide technology for an insurgency.   I heard that 
> Egyptians are even communicating via Bluetooth.  That's rather limited 
> but  works.  Bet some have even put antennas on their wifi routers and 
> opened them up to create wide area hotspots.
> 
> On 01/28/2011 08:40 PM, authfriend wrote:
> > If this graphic comes through, it speaks for itself. Pretty chilling.
> >
> > If it doesn't come through, you can find it here:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/technology/internet/29cutoff.html
> > <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/technology/internet/29cutoff.html>
> >
> > It's a graph of Internet traffic to and from Egypt before and after the
> > government shut it off.


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