internet control

[smiths]

american control of the internet, countries that just dissapear, am sure i read that pakistan had 'dissapeared' off the web after the london bombs<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/inte-j15.shtml">www.wsws.org/articles/200...-j15.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Sepka]

Pakistan's been having a lot of technical difficulties lately.<br><br>Pakistan presently has only a single undersea optical trunk (SEA-ME-WE3) connecting them to the world. That broke on June 27, and it took the repair ships until July 7 to arrive on scene, find the break and splice it. That left them running only on a satellite link for all of their phone and data traffic for that period. <br><br>Pakistan's bandwith is normally 600M (quite low by western standards) but dropped to only 35M or so during the outage. Immediately after the link was restored, they began having capacity problems so that connections were being lost due to latency. That's probably what you were experiencing if you couldn't get to Pakistani websites during that time frame. I think they maintain their root servers in Karachi, so in some parts of the world the *.pk domain itself may have appeared to vanish, if the root servers couldn't be reached. <br><br>Later this month, they're going to lose up to 40% of their bandwidth as they start rotating some of their equipment out of service for maintenance and replacement. They're not having a happy time internet-wise. By the end of the year, Pakistan should be connected by a second optical trunk, so that sort of thing shouldn't happen again. <p></p><i></i>

[glooperoo]

This does bring up the question of what the dissidents in the west (especially the US 9/11 Truth Movement) should do in the event that some "terrorist" attack somehow takes down the internet for an extended period of time because you know they gotta hate the internet by now. It took like <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>a day</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> for the cyber dissidents to tear their london bombing official story apart. Perhaps there should be a general "regrouping" game plan that involves snail mail and other forms of traditional media to keep the ball rolling? So what organizations are there with a real brick-and-mortar setup and staff that people to turn to if they want to get back in touch with other 9/11 Truth Movement folks, or any other group that's aimed at exposing the power elite's agenda? What's their address and contact info? Maybe folks like Alex Jones should set up a pre-internet-attack address list of people that want to receive a newsletter or something? It might not hurt to make a list now. Who knows what's in store for the internet, and us, next? <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[DrDebugDU]

> Who knows what's in store for the internet, and us, next?<br><br>The Chinese are working hard on a final solution to the internet. Maybe it'll be the next export item coming from China<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Pick on the lowest hanging fruit<br>By Gary Reid<br>Friday, July 15, 2005 <br><br>A couple of columnists in the Sun chain of newspapers, Peter Worthington in Toronto, and Ezra Levant in Calgary, have taken pot-shots at Microsoft, the giant American software company. Apparently, Microsoft’s sin is that it won a large contract with the Chinese government to provide software that would control the language content used on individual blogging sites in China. Certain words are zapped, including "freedom, democracy, and human rights." Also on the bleeped list are specific political references, such as "Dalai Lama" and "Tiananmen Square", as well as a number of sexually graphic words and phrases.<br><br>Worthington is amused because he believes China will never be able to control communications this way as bloggers will invent code words and euphemisms to avoid the censorship.<br><br>He may have underestimated the Chinese. I suspect that the software contract called for the product to be "scaleable", in the jargon of software designers. This means that the software can accommodate growth and, as the government decodes new words, they will easily be added to the blocked list. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Ultimately a blogger sites might resemble the old Gerry Springer Show that bleeped out the obscenities of the quarreling guests to such an extent that one could not grasp any coherence in the dialogue.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Levant is more outraged. He thought it disgusting and ironic that Microsoft, "a company that has flourished in an industry rooted in freedom of information" should be providing such a tool to a regime that tries to crush freedom.<br><br>One wonders why these people pick on the American when we have our own home-grown companies involved in the same game, like Nortel Networks.<br><br>Nortel is a player in China’s Golden Shield project.<br><br>Golden Shield is a plan for the "comprehensive management of social security" (a.k.a., political oppression), through "the adoption of advanced information and communication technology to strengthen central police control…" Golden Shield will be a data-base driven remote surveillance system that will provide instant access to records on every Chinese citizen and will be linked to a vast network of cameras designed to increase police efficiency.<br><br>Nortel is assisting the Chinese government by developing <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>speech recognition technology that can be used to automatically provide surveillance of telephone conversations</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. It is also promoting technology that will allow images from video surveillance cameras in remote locations to be processed in a centralized public security location. It offers another technology that will allow Chinese security authorities to centrally monitor individual Internet communications. Additionally, it is developing firewall technology that could be used to prevent dissidents from communicating with the outside world.<br><br>Nortel is not alone.<br><br>Nexus, a Burlington, Ontario company is assisting the Chinese in the development of the integration of voice and face recognition technology.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It is the goal of the Chinese government to issue every citizen a smart card that will contain all the personal records on each individual imbedded in a microchip and to have remote technology sensors that will be able to surreptitiously read the data on that card from several meters away.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/reid071505.htm">www.canadafreepress.com/2...071505.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Of course the system will fail during a planned terror attack... <p></p><i></i>