Sachinism Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 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. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
f.b.m Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 :mad: :mad: I cant reach a couple of my former classmates now. Its not just the rights of the Egyptian's that are being denied but its also our right to hear/listen. As Hitchens said: " it’s not just the right of the person who speaks to be heard, it is the right of everyone in the audience to listen, and to hear."
Ram Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 They're digging their own grave. This will have a catastrophic effect on their business/economy.
b555 Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 Not only Internet access has been disrupted by government order in Egypt as protesters continue to clash with police in anti-government demonstrations. The Egyptian government's blackout extends to mobile phone operators, who have been ordered to suspend service in some areas. "Under Egyptian legislation, the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply," said a company representative of Vodafone, which runs a network there. The cut-off of Internet access happened just after midnight, local time, according to Internet monitoring firm Renesys, when the largest Internet Service Providers operating out of the country stopped providing the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing information used to connect the rest of the world with computers in the Egypt. Egypt is experiencing its worst civil unrest in more than 30 years, as citizens have taken to the streets demanding an end to the government of President Hosni Mubarak. Similar widespread outages have been blamed on cuts to undersea fiber-optic cables, but that doesn't seem to be what happened this time around, said Paul Ferguson, a researcher with security firm Trend Micro. An outage on a cable would not just effect Egypt, it would cut off all of sub-Saharan Africa." he said. "This is apparently a deliberate blackout." Renesys agreed. "The Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet," Renesys said. "Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world." Those four large providers -- Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, and Etisalat Misr -- have dropped most of their Internet connectivity. Most Egyptian Web sites are now unreachable and people inside Egypt are largely unable to connect with the outside world using e-mail, instant messaging, or the Web. Selective Access But Egypt's Internet isolation is not complete. One service provider -- Noor Data Networks, a provider used by the Egyptian Stock Exchange -- is unaffected. Twelve hours after the Internet shutdown began, the Egyptian Stock Exchange website was still accessible from outside the country. On Twitter, a growing number of users, most of whom seem to be located outside of Egypt, are calling for users with a Wi-Fi router on Noor's ADSL or dial-up service to remove the password and share their Internet access with other users. All told, about 88 percent of Egypt's networks have been cut off, according a blog entry on the Web site of network monitoring toolmaker, BGPmon. Another network monitoring company Arbor Network, has posted a graphic illustrating the dramatic cut-off in traffic to and from Egypt. Unprecedented Restriction Some countries routinely block access to specific Web sites, but this is the first time that a country has voluntarily severed its own Internet connection. "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. The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map," Renesys said. Earlier in the week, the Egyptian government had reportedly blocked access to Facebook and Twitter, but with large protests expected Friday, it has apparently taken new steps to prevent people from communicating. " In this case the government seems to be taking a shotgun approach by ordering ISP's to stop routing all networks," BGPmon said. Calls to major Egyptian ISPs and telecommunications rang unanswered on Friday, which is not a working day in the country and most of the Middle East. "We are concerned that communication services, including the Internet, social media and even this tweet , are being blocked in Egypt ," U.S. State Dept. Spokesman PJ Crowley said via Twitter late Thursday.
vaibhav_delhi Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 They're digging their own grave. This will have a catastrophic effect on their business/economy. Absolutely, this could have dangerous consequences especially when tht country is going thru a political turmoil.
flamy Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 Cleopatra..! Coming atcha! Cleopatra! Coming atchaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...~! :wizard:
Clarke Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 One has to wonder while looking @ the bigger picture: What's next ? I'd expect the Mubarak administration to crush the revolts just like in Iran.
Roshanrocks Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 Cleopatra..! Coming atcha! Cleopatra! Coming atchaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...~! :wizard: :desiman:
Sachin=GOD Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 One has to wonder while looking @ the bigger picture: What's next ? I'd expect the Mubarak administration to crush the revolts just like in Iran. This time it may be difficult for him to crush this revolt because from what I've read, apart from the public, the army also seems to be against him.
flamy Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 I had a dream abt this shyt yesterday :hysterical: I was in the pyramids and trying to negotiate with a mummy to get internet so that I can browse ICF. FML. :((
Sachinism Posted January 30, 2011 Author Posted January 30, 2011 I had a dream abt this shyt yesterday :hysterical: I was in the pyramids and trying to negotiate with a mummy to get internet so that I can browse ICF. FML. :(( :adore: Gimme some of what you had before going to bed
flamy Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 :cantstop: it was so riduclous, i was in a second floor window in some office and stealing govt papers :dontknow:
flamy Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThvBJMzmSZI]YouTube - The Most AMAZING video on the internet #Egypt #jan25[/ame] :((
bulbul Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 This Egypt revolution will have serious repercussions in future.People behind these are called some " Muslim Brother hood " they are also threatening this will spread to other Arab countries and people want to overhtrow Govts which are closer to US. now i am afraiid iof waht will happen to Oil prices.
Holysmoke Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I had a dream abt this shyt yesterday :hysterical: I was in the pyramids and trying to negotiate with a mummy to get internet so that I can browse ICF. FML. :(( Doood.. you're crazy. :hysterical:
flamy Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Doood.. you're crazy. :hysterical: I wokey and ICF was there. :yay::icflove:
Desi Cartman Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I had a dream abt this shyt yesterday :hysterical: I was in the pyramids and trying to negotiate with a mummy to get internet so that I can browse ICF. FML. :(( Heard on the ABC radio that some rioters entered a museum and chopped of heads of mummies :D so even if they had interwebz in Egypt you would have still failed to get a response from the mummies :thefinger:
flamy Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 flamigaley baasu :blush: Heard on the ABC radio that some rioters entered a museum and chopped of heads of mummies :D so even if they had interwebz in Egypt you would have still failed to get a response from the mummies :thefinger: :((
Clarke Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 Google & Twitter now provide a service wherein one can call an international toll free # and leave a voice mail which is then published on twitter :woot: Internet blockades :finger:
Desi Cartman Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 Google & Twitter now provide a service wherein one can call an international toll free # and leave a voice mail which is then published on twitter :woot: Internet blockades :finger: but how can they check what others are posting :thefinger:
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