Yesterday, Egypt has been disconected from the civilization

[muzikia]

Yesterday, The Egyptian Government decided to cut all cell lines and whatever means Internet in Egypt.
Right now, nobody using an local internet company can access information about what is happening in their country.

What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up. We will continue to dig into the event, and will update this story as we learn more. As Friday dawns in Cairo under this unprecedented communications blackout, keep the Egyptian people in your thoughts.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... e-internet
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/28/ ... .shutdown/

This is the lightest situation they can face.
Check the links, search for news and you will see what is happening in Egypt.
People trying to be free.

Every minute Egypt situation Reporting Center - CNN
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/cl ... 1&iref=BN1

Only hope that the friends we have there stay safe.

Egyptians that live abroad, you, people that have friends there, try to help them somehow.

[muzikia]

Events in Tunisia may have inspired the largest street protests ever to challenge President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly three decades in power. But the anger fueling those protests is not new. It has been seething beneath the surface for many years, exploding at times, but never before in such widespread, sustained fury.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/cl ... 1&iref=BN1

[Trace]

Read about it yea, have been following events in Tunesia as well.
Really interesting how a new age seems to be coming in which social networks are key factors for people in such countries to organize their protests, spread their words and stand united together.
Seeing how the government takes the whole internet down out of fear for it shows how powerful this can be.

[Andrew]

Let's just hope they won't make a habit out of this in more countries as well

IF, at a later date, they do issue some laws on the subject I bet they will include the words: "for your safety" and "terrorism" to name a few.

[dhunt]

Right now, the US is having a lot of trouble from China. China is a different bird. If you were in China and hacked a Chinese site, you really don't want to know the consequences on that one. But, if you are in China hacking outside the Chinese areas of interest then it's not the Chinese Governments problem. Ask Google and the United States Military about that one.

I don't hold with a country blocking ALL outbound and inbound traffic on the internet but sometimes, the Internet Community needs to completely blockout the countries that have the worst hackers and spammers. Yes, if the US is on that list (it's #3 on the spam list due to the way that the telcos and cable companies do their IP numbers; putting their dynamic IPs on Direct Allocation like the Static IPs rather than indirect allocation for IP numbers) then I think a country should put that country on the filter. That country would clean up it's act fast.

I won't go into the countries on that list but it's a very short list.

[muzikia]

In Egypt the situation was different. The Govnt blocked the access to the internet of his own
Citizens.

Concerning China and US relation:


It seems that you were fooled as many others by the "nice dance" beetwen the two Countries.
Also, never never should block All the Country if it has the worst spammers or hackers.
The would be the beginning of the end ....And the end of the democracy.

If you cannot get Bin Laden destroy all the country ?

Oh, it seems that this "proper " way of thinking.

[dhunt]

During my 10 years as an ISP, I frequently blocked blocks of IP numbers. Sometimes complete countries like China, Brazil, Iran, Argentina and Mexico (just to name a few). That cut down the spam attempts quite a bit. You only see the successful Spamming. AT the server level, you get to see the spamming attempts starting with a, aa, aab, aac etc.. Enough of those and you can get a denial of service pretty easy. Block it at DNS level and there is no email hits and misses, no automatic generation of error message. When you are getting hits of 30+ per second, it's time to weed out the worst offenders.