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Egypt cuts off access to the internet from inside the country By Saed Bannoura
The internet cut-off comes a day after the internet freedom group ‘Free Press’ called on people around the world to challenge the Egyptian government’s use of ‘attack software’ produced by a Boeing-owned subsidiary, Narus, of Sunnyvale, California. The technology, known as ‘Deep Packet Inspection’ (DPI), can be used by the regime to track, target and… Continue reading
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Undermining the American People’s Right to Privacy: The Secret State’s Surveillance Machine By Tom Burghardt
Hoping to forestall public suspicions of how things actually work in Washington, the administration has declared that “it will continue to block the release of additional documents, including communications within the Executive Branch and records reflecting the identities of telecoms involved in lobbying for immunity,” according to EFF’s Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. Continue reading
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Spying on Individuals and Organizations: Anglo-American Defense Giants Entrusted with “Mastering the Internet” by Tom Burghardt
Mastering the Internet as a repressive tool for corralling recalcitrant individuals such as antiwar campaigners, environmental activists, socialists and Muslims under Britain’s draconian 2006 Terrorism Act, thousands of digital nodes designed to “master the internet” would certainly fit the bill for spooks-gone-wild. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 