[PAA-Discuss] Mass protests spook Egypt into switching off its Internet

[robert]

.......we had better use it while we can.........looks like they can turn it
off at will
 
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=18876

THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT has apparently cut off its citizens' access to the
Internet in response to widespread protests.

In a move that observers regard as unprecedented, the government has shut
down all international connections to the Internet, said web monitor Renesys
in a  <http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml>
blog post. Renesys CTO James Cowie said that virtually all of Egypt's
Internet addresses were unreachable worldwide.

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