[135775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Fri Jan 28 16:03:01 2011
From: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:02:34 +0000
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On Friday 28 January 2011 20:36:30 George Bonser wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jake Khuon [mailto:khuon@neebu.net]
> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM
> > To: Patrick W. Gilmore
> > Cc: NANOG list
> > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
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> > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > > I think it does not matter. Censorship is censorship. (So much for
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> > "routing around it".)
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> I think it would be pretty hard to actually cut off communications when t=
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> telephone system is still working. You can move a lot of email by dialup
> UUCP if you wanted to.
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> I am guessing that satellite internet still works and landline dialup to a
> modem outside the country still works. And there's always static routes
> :)
International dial-out is a good point, especially these days when internat=
ional=20
voice isn't wildly expensive any more. Does anyone have a source for dialup=
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pools like that?
Personally, I suspect that it's probably more important to cut off internal=
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comms. Especially as the TV and media people are pretty good at bringing th=
eir=20
own satellite connectivity. Which is more worrying, someone updating their=
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wordpress.com blog, or the same person texting everyone they know to show u=
p=20
outside State TV at 1700 hours and bring a bag of bricks? A lot of the=20
fbk/twt/whatever activity, and all the really politically important fractio=
n of=20
it, is just that - but going through either externally located servers or=20
externally-owned ones.
I wonder if anyone's working on a mesh or p-t-p radio app that runs on a=20
smartphone?
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The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to=
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lists complaining about them
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