More Trouble Expected When Egypt Comes Back Online

schliz writes "Net activists at Telecomix are preparing darknets, encryption, proxies and VPNs to protect Egyptians' online freedom when the Government-imposed Internet blackout ends. Today, Telecomix regarded Egypt as being on "the same level as North Korea and Burma in internet censorship" amid rumours that Egyptian phone lines were to be shut down. Analysts and the Internet Society have also warned of technical and business difficulties to come — including BGP churn and commercial fears of doing business in Egypt."

Re:What'a a darknet?

[mob)barley]

It's a standalone network that is not physically connected in any way to the public networks we know of as the Internet. Learned that from a Gibson novel.