How to make people pissy...take away their internet connection. This seems like a sane idea. Now without their Facebook, e-mail, streaming video, and my goodness up to the minute football (soccer) info this should drive them completely crazy. Without ones normal level of media joy, this seems like it would just add to the unrest in the country. Heck, my FB is unavailable, I think I will go riot.
Now President Hosni Mubarak has sacked his cabinet. Nothing like riots, no internet, and then to finally get your self slapped with a pink slip in the middle of the whole affair. Am still trying to make sense of Egypt's current chaotic presence. Maybe this is an example of bad management? In the meantime, even though I wish to visit the Cairo museum, I think I will hold off any trips. How would I update my blog if I visited Egypt right now?!
That meant that virtually all of Egypt's internet addresses were unreachable.
Egyptian authorities are also reported to have stunted net access by shutting down official Domain Name Servers (DNS) in Egypt. These act as address books and are consulted by web browsing software to find out the location of a site a user wants to visit.
Now President Hosni Mubarak has sacked his cabinet. Nothing like riots, no internet, and then to finally get your self slapped with a pink slip in the middle of the whole affair. Am still trying to make sense of Egypt's current chaotic presence. Maybe this is an example of bad management? In the meantime, even though I wish to visit the Cairo museum, I think I will hold off any trips. How would I update my blog if I visited Egypt right now?!
Egypt severs internet connection amid growing unrest
According to internet monitoring firm Renesys, shortly before 2300 GMT on 27 January virtually all routes to Egyptian networks were simultaneously withdrawn from the internet's global routing table.That meant that virtually all of Egypt's internet addresses were unreachable.
Egyptian authorities are also reported to have stunted net access by shutting down official Domain Name Servers (DNS) in Egypt. These act as address books and are consulted by web browsing software to find out the location of a site a user wants to visit.
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