Last Internet Provider in Egypt Goes Dark
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SEATTLE (AP) — The last of Egypt’s main Internet service providers, the Noor Group, has gone dark.
The Noor Group had remained online even after Egypt’s four main Internet providers — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr — abruptly stopped shuttling Internet traffic into and out of the country Friday morning.
At about 11 p.m. local time Monday, the Noor Group became unreachable, said James Cowie, chief technology officer of Renesys, a security firm based in Manchester, N.H. Renesys monitors massive directories of “routes,” or set paths that define how Web traffic moves from one place to another. The Noor Group’s routes have disappeared, he said.
Cowie said engineers at the Noor Group and other service providers could quickly shut down the Internet by logging on to certain computers and changing a configuration file. The original Internet blackout on Friday took just 20 minutes to fully go into effect, he said.
Cell phone service was restored in Egypt starting Saturday but text messaging services have been disrupted as protests continue.
Google Inc., meanwhile, said that over the weekend it had developed a new service that will allow people in Egypt to post Twitter messages without an Internet connection. The so-called speak-to-tweet service was developed by engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow, a company Google acquired last week.
With the service, which is already live, people in Egypt can post tweets by dialing an international telephone number and leaving a voicemail message. The message is then sent out as a tweet with the hashtag (hash)egypt.
“We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time,” Google said in a blog posting Monday.
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Comments (64)
lynnissmart
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:56amSTOP THIS GUY!!!!! I have never in my life disliked anyone (that’s putting it midly) so much…..Although I didn’t vote for him, I never thought that he was a commie…….please, please what can we do to get rid of him?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:26amThis is horrible! What if you’re an Egyptian watching an ebay auction? There were revolutions long before the internet people.
Report Post »Edgar Bennet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:14pmSniping now means something totally different
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:26amCalm down people. I lived for over 40 years in a world without interweb and for the first 5 years it was only used for porn. Hell no web, no cell phones, no GPS and only 4 tv channels and WE went to the frig en MOON.
Report Post »elkaypee
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:20amIf the Egyptian uprising is truly a dmeonstration for democratic reforms, then why has it not spread to Iran where memories of the last uprising are still fresh in the minds of the Iranian people who participated in them? The riotors in Iran were demanding more freedom and were savagely put down, whereas the riotors in Egypt who started out demanding freedom, has now changed their demands and are making them for a new Islamist regime.
Report Post »I smell outside influence from Iran to topple this pro-western, pro-Isreali government. If the conflagrations in other countries are the result of the poeple being tired of political repression, then one of the obvious places this should spread to is Iran. The fact that it has not is evidence too me, anyway, that this movement is NOT about economic change anymore, but ideological revolution in the entire region. An ideology that mirrors that of Iran.
heavyduty
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:00amHas anyone noticed that Obama wants a shut off switch for our internet and cell phones. This sounds really familiar as to what is happening in Egypt today. How long do you figure it will be before he gets it?
Report Post »BQI
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:53amSome think this is no big deal. The president could use Marshall Law in the US to get the same effect. We disagree. Fed Legislation now underway to give Obad this power. See the article
“The Kill Button”@ http://www.blackquillandink.com
The Special Edition @ BQI: “2012”
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:53amWell lets see I have spent all our extra money to stock up on food,water (and I have a well..LOL).. I have a lifetime supply of light bulbs that do NOT contain mercury.. to go with the bulbs I have stocked up on Tee shirt bags..(aka as plastic grocery bags)..thanks to the government I have had to buy a black box to see LOCAL television.. and to get any REAL news I have to buy cable.. I have kept my land line for my phone but added a cell phone for traveling..I have had to purchase REAL history books for my family since the ones provided by the schools no longer have the REAL history.. can‘t even get real history from the HISTORY station since people who rule like the KENNEDY’S (who were bootleggers) control the truth from being told to the people.. BTW this last thing has made me question if the HISTORY station provides the truth in history at all..and I have to update whats going on every hour.. I bought a small car to save on gas money so I could buy the things listed above.. but refuse to go electric..I have learned how to grow my own food and can it.. and all this in the last 3 years.. No wonder since I got laid off I am busier than when I was working..Now I have to look into a HAM radio.. actually my husband and I were looking at them a few months back.. to the poster who said there will be a lot of people who will use these radio’s WITHOUT a license they speak the truth.. the government can ban or try to regulate whatever they want but the AMERICAN people will do what they WANT.. which is why they are so upset they can’t get our guns.. To many people beleive in our Constitution and follow that.. and even with all their propaganda they can’t more than 30% of our young to buy into their agenda.. because parents of these youngsters are making them learn about our history at home..
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:24pmI’m with you on the light bulbs. I’ve been stocking up simply because my state has banned them. I’m an environmental resource major and I firmly believe that the toxic hazards in the mercury-containing flourescents far outweighs any foregone savings in electricity usage (and now we face criminal penalties for throwing them in the trash!). Not ot mention, flourescents give me headaches.
Report Post »SICKANTIRED
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:34amI Have a CB And Shortwave Radio so I could sit at home and find out what was going on without going out who needs a Computer or cellphone.. I Love my CB and shortwave Radio :-)
Report Post »hiramsmaxim
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:50amIf you have armature radio (HAM), you will always have a way to communicate even with email.
2m and 70cm for local and (repeater) connectivity. There is a HAM emergency connectivity system and email either IP or radio protocol. And if you want to get really kinky use spread spectrum (leave the letters alone)!
fyi.A communication technique in which the frequency of the transmitted signal is deliberately varied. This results in greater bandwidth and lessens the chances of interruption or interception of the transmitted signal. …
ie … hard to listen in , like cell technology.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:41amComing to a USA town soon too!
Report Post »sandmannc40
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:35amThis is something I have referenced to for the last few days. Egypt shuts down Internet service across the country and Cell phone services. Then you hear Obama and Clinton wanting Egypt to open Internet and cell phones use. Not to curb the citizens ability to contact each other. Yet look at what the Democrats are seeking here. Fairness doctrine? Ring any bells. Obama now has a Internet shutdown key? Sounds like the typical Democrat. “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:27amI can’t believe no one has mentioned Fidonet here yet. Everybody here on the Blaze is using the great grandchild of Fidonet as the Blog is just an evolved, streamlined Internet based Bulletin Board (BBS) system.
So kiddies, might be time to dig for an old 56kbs analog modem out of a musty box in the basement.
If you know what you are doing, you can use the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN – That’s the dial-up telephone system to most people) and do everything you are doing here, except slower, without the streaming video) and without using the Internet at all.
Ham radio operators are already doing digital and IP over shortwave—it’s a hobby that obviously has value (especially in a progressive totalitarian country like this one is turning into).
For your reading pleasure:
Report Post »http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html
http://www.cci.utk.edu/~bates/papers/ica92-FIDOINFO.pdf
http://ronhashiro.htohananet.com/am-radio/packet/jnos.html
blanco
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:03amStock up on food!!!!
Report Post »americaisbleeding
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:03amStock up on ammo too!!!!!!!!
Report Post »lifelongrepublican
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:38amazmomof6 is correct about knowing who your neighbors are. Word of mouth is a switch that cannot be turned off.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:29amwhat a shame and the bigger shame is it will happen here at some point.. my guess is the dummer before the 2012 elections…
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:18amSenators Lieberman and Collins would approve!
Report Post »Utah_Carl
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:38amThere’s a story on Drudge (2-1-11) regarding proposed legislation for a U.S. “kill switch” to “protect” us. We could end up cuddled in a corner with a wind up short wave radio trying to find out what’s going on in the world.
Report Post »mattva1981
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:59amWho needs a CB Radio when you have an iPhone??? :~/
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:55amEvidently you will need one when they shut your service down. Which they can’t do with a CB. But go ahead and keep your IPhone. I will stick with my yazoo. Then we will see who talks the longest.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:23amHey, I taught myself Morse Code when I was only nine. I was an extremely bright child. In this age of advanced technology I’m sure that the World will know what is going on in Egypt, somehow, some way.
I am very upset about how Muslim women accept that they are inferior, because they are women. All I can say to them is – throw off your head coverings and realize that you are equal to your men Tell your men that you will no longer accept second class citizenship. Muslim women, come into the 21st century.
Report Post »emertz8413
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:22amI agree, whole-heartily, but I think it’s going to be very hard for them, having been oppressed for so long. They need a few brave souls to get them started.
Report Post »2gether
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:02amwe have a wife who was beheaded in Amherst NY for “disobeying” her spouse. He is now in court trying to defend his actions…seriously? You have to be willing to die in the Middle East to open your mouth if you are a woman or be willing to be beaten to a pulp.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:39amI doubt that cell service will last through tomorrow before “unforeseen circumstances” cause a network shutdown. If there is a total communications black out, well, I feel bad for the protesters. That is usually the last thing that happens before the bullets fly.
Report Post »Auralae
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:34amI‘d highly recommend Walid Shoebat’s “God’s War on Terror”, which outlines End Times prophecy from an Eastern perspective….he’s been speaking about expecting to see a renewed caliphate for years now. (He’s a former PLO terrorist, and Muslim Brotherhood member).
Report Post »hey ohms
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:12amDo I smell a michael moore movie?
Report Post »EP46
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:05amMaybe….michael could play one of the tanks !!
Oh yea, the revolution will be televised…what do you think about Oprah’s new network OWN
Report Post »sounds like she has set up barry’s ONE WORLD NETWORK ….so when they pull the kill switch we will have one network left.
SilentReader
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:01amTheir hypocrisy is amazing. Obama condemns the Egyptian government for cutting off the internet there while he’s legislating a “kill switch” here so he can cut off ours.
The Progressive-Left is beyond contemptible.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:58amThat is because Obama is a flaming narcissist. It simply is not in his nature to tell the truth.
Report Post »DASHRIPR0CK
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:46amThank goodness Goggle is helping the revolution.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:53amGoogle HAS to help the revolution.
Report Post »US taxpayers paid for it.
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/29/coming-august-31-direct-access-stimulus-grants-for-the-muslim-brotherhood/
PlanetXenu
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:27amhello! this is not a good thing! this is what we all have been fighting against in our own country, only you refuse to see it. Censorship of reality. what if this happened to us, and the rest of the world turned a blind eye… but it’s not, so lets just ALL IGNORE IT THEN. YES, OF COURSE…IT’S NOT US, SO WHO MCARES. LADI DADI DA… it may be us soon.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:04am.
@ PlanetXenu
You‘re right that we’ve already been fighting censorship in this country… More than most realize.
Consider how the Clintons kept so many of their personal records hidden and now Obama’s spent millions keeping his birth records, passports, name changes, and college records all hidden from public access. He‘s the least transparent president we’ve had in my lifetime, so I fully expect that he won’t hesitate to cut off communication to keep the population in the dark if anything remotely similar starts here… It will likely be started by his people.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:30amThe Blaze has been showing us the comming unrest here in the U.S.A. Fight’s at resturants, school gym’s, city buses the unemployed, uneducated masses here, have the capacity to do the same. They have in the past torched their neighborhoods, killed the inocent (Look up Bob Johnson Baton Rouge he just died after a 40 yr old attack left him a vegtable) and they have their freedom. They choose to fight not for freedom but a handout, free stuff.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:45amOh my. Is this what we are headed into?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:50amI don’t think so but bring it on .
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:15amRight… they did it to help people stay connected during this difficult time. Not to aid in the chaos and uprising.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:19amNo. Americans are smarter and more well prepared than this. Especially in the south, where we have CB radio knowledge and capability. it wasn’t 20 years ago that the entirety of this Nation was without the internet, and we know full well how to communicate to each other if the switch gets flipped. In other words, young-uns, go out and buy a CB radio to receive relayed news locally, and if you have electronics knowledge or are smart enough to figure it out, get a short-wave radio. Either option, get a signal booster. Or sit in your house pitying yourself wishing you knew what was going on.
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:28amIf the SHTF then yes BHO will have it this way too.
O’Reilly made a good point with Beck tonight on this very issue. BHO could declare martial law tomorrow and shut the net down. A bill giving him power to do it doesnt matter… more of some twisted political ploy by the progressive wanting to give it to him in the first place.
Could it possibly be a scare tactic over all the ‘violent rhetoric’ who knows? Nothing is impossible at this point. As I say the crazy talk of yesterday, last year or years ago is reality today. With this Pres nothing is out of the question. Its the progressives in power working on it; Lieberman and Collins if I remember correctly, an “independent” and a “republican”!
Stand your ground hold the line, the radical monsters are gearing up to engage us at the gates. 56 men, our Founding Fathers, had the guts to stand up and do what’s right, what about you? http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:36am@ BMARTAIN…..
Report Post »Judging by my screen name, what do you reckon?
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Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:42amYes, it is where we are headed.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:44amThe Leftists are hoping so, and this is the reason we have to keep it quiet here in the States.
@My Sacred Honor — Have my CB, kicker, and mike. Also have an antenna, but I need to go to a truckstop for the magnetic base or get it mouinted to my car permanent-style. Just some of the goodies from my driving days! Also have a collection of addresses of my political friends — for just such an occasion.
Report Post »Freedom1953
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:06am@My_Sacred_Honor
CB? Are you serious? CB is limited to 50 miles at 5 watts and 40 set channels. HAM radio already has a system that could be used for worldwide communications with all the various bands and output up to 1500 watts. On vhf and uhf we have what is called packet radio which is similar to the old dialup BBS systems of the 70s 80s and early 90s but over radio. We also have several digital modes of communications over HF. Then we also have voice.
Don’t limit yourself in thinking CB could replace the internet. It just couldn’t happen unless the sun cycle was at its peak and that would be sporadic at best.
The WH has been pushing for control over the internet here, giving BHO a “shutoff switch,” but that would require the cooperation of more providers than service a small country like Egypt.
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:26amanyone else reading up on revelations?
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:29amCB has use but Im with Freedom a HAM radio is probably where you need to go to find out whats really going on. Dont you have to have a license or something to operate a HAM?
Glenn kidded around thats what he wanted for xmas didnt he? That and a mimeograph :)
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:29am@Freedom1953
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:06am
Yeah, Buddy, he’s serious. There are other side channels besides the 40 you were talking about; and, if your kicker is strong enough, you can walk all over everybody else. And, then there’s skip. I got 150 miles with skip on a marine radio. Asked for a radio check then asked where he was who gave it to me.
People communicated before the Internet. (Honest to Pete we did!) The Internet simply enables instant communication. Don’t forget, there are also the police and fire monitors. Andf, newspapers might not have to be bailed out if we lose the Internet.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:36amWe are not Egypt so I’m not too worried, but there are issues like a cyber-attack from China, North Korea or whoever doesn’t like us, even from within the US. The hard left is very intolerant, so anything is possible. They do try to shut down any opposing voices.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:49amOh, by the way, THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED.
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:54amHAM radio is a great idea. Yes, BMARTIN, you do need a license to use one. There are two types of license (ameture & technician). You have to take a test to get one. But when it comes down to a serious problem or issue happening in our country, I’m sure there will be people using HAM radios without a license. Another important thing to do, is get to know and trust your neighbors; we can get information house to house if we have to.
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:33amRome knew of Jesus death withing 24 hours, and that was before the HAM radio.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:37amsearch Obama kill switch to the internet
Report Post »http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=obama+kill+switch&aq=f&aqi=g3g-m1&aql=&oq=
tower7femacamp
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:40amThe Obama administration is busy attempting to pass legislation that would give the President a kill switch for the Internet in the United States while at the same time decrying Egyptian authorities for shutting down the Internet in a bid to deflate the unfolding revolution against Hosni Mubarak. The reason is simple – the government fears an Egypt-style revolt occurring in the U.S. and wants to block access to the world wide web if and when it happens.
Chicago radio host and occasional Alex Jones Show guest Mancow Muller called it right during an appearance on Mike Huckabee’s show this weekend.
“It’s in all the newspapers, ‘Ohblahblah’, we’ve got to free up Twitter, we’ve got to free up the Internet and Facebook for these poor Egyptians – this is the President that let Wikileaks and all of this stuff happen,” said Mancow.
“They create the problems and we react to fear — the the four letter f-word that controls the masses and they offer the solution, “they” being the government. This is the President that wants the kill switch for the Internet….he wants a kill switch.”
“They fear….social networking, Twitter, Facebook, all of this stuff, but oh, no, we must have it in Egypt, but we don’t want to have it in America.”
Mancow also pointed out how Egyptians were rioting over an economic fallout that has led to crippling tax hikes, wage reductions and spiraling food prices, a similar situation to what is unfolding in America, making reference to how Illinois state authorities recently agreed to hike taxes by a whopping 66 percent.
As we have illustrated, despite invoking supposedly genuine security concerns, the only time governments have resorted to shutting down the world wide web is when they feel the need to crush legitimate dissent against the state.
Indeed, at the height of the Stuxnet worm attack, the crisis was cited as another reason why cybersecurity legislation giving government control of the Internet was necessary. It later emerged that the Stuxnet virus itself was created by the US and Israel to target Iran’s nuclear program.
The Communist Chinese government is now blocking searches for the word “Egypt” on social networking websites in China, reflecting “the government’s fears that the protests in Egypt could whip up unrest in China.”
Sina.com public relations officer Ma Taotao confirms that Chinese searches for Egypt are blocked on its instant messaging site, Sina Weibo.
Ma says the company itself did not make the decision, but is only following the “relevant Chinese laws and regulations.” He gives no details and does not say which government department is responsible. He says he does not know how long the restriction will be in force.
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/kill-switch-obama-administration-fears-egypt-style-revolt-in-u-s/
Highland
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:25amTyrants hate free speech. Keep this in mind as Congress tries to do Obama‘s bidding in passing the ’Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010,’ otherwise known as the Internet kill switch law. Obama finds a crisis to exploit (don’t let it go to waste!), declares an emergency and, voila! no Internet and no First Amendment.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:45amGive Obama a “kill switch”, and you can bet at the first little hint of dissension, he will be activating it!!! If he does, EVERYTHING that runs off of or use the internet to will shut down, and THAT would be a total DISASTER for this country!!! NOBODY, not even the president, should have the power to “kill the internet”!!! It’s way too important to the economy and, to a certain degree the stability of the country; there are many things that are dependent on the internet for the security of the country.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:33amYep…..legislation has already been created and is before the Congress…….giving Obama the authority to flip the switch…..
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:48pm@My_Sacred_Honor, azmomof6,Showtime
Both CB and HAM radio can be useful, but both have their particular weaknesses. CB would require special equipment to be viable over long distance. Having a Single Side Band type with a RF power amplifier would be necessary – a bit expensive but doable. HAM has FAR more abilities in that, depending on the band used, can communicate world-wide. I’ve been a HAM for several years now, currently working on the General license, which in candor, is the level of license that you need to get to use the lower, distance-reaching bands. And couple of other things to keep in mind: 1) to get the license, you have to supply you address to the FCC. In other words, they’ll know who and where all the HAMS are (unless you‘ve moved since then and haven’t updated). CB is typically not regulated (meaning licensed) 2) in the event of a Martial law, the President, by virtue of the Telecommunications act, already has the power to declare the use of HAM bands illegal by anyone not military. The original thought was to allow them the spectrum during natural disasters, but who says they’d let THAT stand in their way. 3) on the upside, using burst modulation, an ‘email’ net of sorts is already done. It would be hard to contain in a scenario such as above, so could be useful
Report Post »4) realistically, getting into HAM radio is little more spendy than CB. You’re looking at at least $200 to $300 to do it properly, unless of course, you can get a good deal on equipment. Anyone interested, look up your local HAM radio clubs – we’re everywhere :)
LetUsReason
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:14pmIronically, “Noor” means “light” in Arabic. The light’s gone out…
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