Egypt Unplugged from the Internet
Summary: The Egyptian government on Thursday severed the nation's connections to the rest of the Internet in an apparent effort to disrupt political protests against the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak. Renesys found that Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, and Etisalat Misr were all blocked, and BGPmon reported that only 239 Egyptian networks remained reachable, leaving 91% of Egyptian routes unreachable.
Key Takeaway: A government cut off roughly 80 million people from the Web and the mobile networks alongside it, and the same article notes that U.S. representatives had recently proposed an 'Internet Kill Switch' for the President - so the question is what stops the same mechanism from being turned on your own country's networks.
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