From January 27 to February 2, 2011. Five days that killed a dream born in 1968 in an incubator until 1974, a teenager in 1989 and since then more and more important. Even a dream in which I put my hands the first time 28 years ago was 1983. Since 1968 we have seen it grow. First quietly, secretly. Then, once you become famous, exponentially, unstoppable.
No one had expected. She did not believe anyone. The Net was the idea, the vision of an academic turned into reality. They said it was a military project. False. The story is different. For the first time there was a complex system with standard and de facto decision taken, by the entire community of users in a new form of decision tree, rather than de jure by a select few.
They tried to put it under control. They tried to adjust it, to force her. There have been successful for 43 years. We believed. We have nurtured the hope that it might be the tool that would allow new forms of democracy, reduced and eliminated inequalities, political or geographical isolation.
Many were sure that there was no way to turn it off. False. It can be shut down. They succeeded in 2005, Nepal and Burma in 2007. There could Mubarak. It is not a simple thing to do. There is no button to push, maybe red, a country to disconnect from the Net. Not yet at least ... Things are more complicated.
Local operators must be ordered to close their doors to the network at their disposal. In Egypt there are different providers: VodafoneRaya, Link Egypt, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, internetEgypt, NoorGroup, Yalla Online, and still others are all over 18. Obviously, it is especially easy if the local government is not really democratic.
The most elegant way is to change providers in order to properly routing tables of their nodes to block traffic to sites not welcome: social networks, and more Twetter Facebook, search engines, Google in the first place, to finish then any other site. Strategy of the boiled frog: put the frog in cold water, she will swim happily.
Light the fire. The frog in warm water is even more happy. When it starts to boil, the frog is cooked. Felice. You have not noticed anything. However if there was anyone that wants to play the hero, there is always the possibility to disconnect the power. Computers without electricity go out.
But move too brutal. The nodes of the network are, in addition to access, including for transit information. Should not turn them off altogether. Egypt has shut down its network and with it the dream that he was untouchable and indestructible, uncontrollable. Reference to overcome anxiety: you can turn off completely? Experts, never once being touched by the slightest doubt, declare that it is impossible.
The network, they say, is like the hydra. Cut a head, a link and other branches are generated on the network to reconnect the isolated nodes. If you break the network, cutting off a series of nodes so as to divide it into two pieces, each piece will still work. Always true? If the U.S. decided to close their network, can they? With what consequences at the global scale? Impossible, say other experts.
The U.S. does not do things like that. Too bad that in recent days the State Department has blocked a number of sites offering the opportunity to assist in streaming the SuperBowl. They did, legal experts say, because they have availed themselves of the laws and regulations on copyright.
What is the work of genius, the one that characterizes the work of a writer, for example, in a Superbowl game, not at all clear. So close in the U.S. sites can be done and it was done. Never heard of Joseph Lieberman, Susan Collins and Tom Carter and their brilliant bill: "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act", known to most with the sarcastic nickname "Kill Bill Switch"? Kill Switch those switches are characterized by a big red button that, with a handful in the event of an emergency stop device.
Do you think about the treadmill at the gym? Here, the same. Bill mean in English law, but is also an abbreviation of the name William and recalls the film Kill Bill. The one with the girl very angry with deadly sword. In short, Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut, an independent, Collins, Republican senator from Maine, and Carter himself, but the Delaware senator and Democrat, have proposed a law to give the U.S.
president the power on the Internet. In the case of an emergency of massive cyber attack or an episode of Cyberwar, providers, search engines, computer companies, operators in the telecoms / IT / Internet may be ordered anything in the interest of the country. Even closing all by pressing the infamous red button.
Of course, once the media have dealt with the issue - the U.S. media work pretty well - the best independent senator said no, no it was not true, you do not give Excessive powers to the President, there are no red buttons anti panic. Make sure to read paragraph 249 of the Act and decide for yourself.
Two more comments on the crisis in Egypt and the networked world. The first is that Vodafone has accused the Egyptian government to have improperly used his mobile telephone network to send swarms of SMS for the greater glory and honor of the government itself. The second is that the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, based in Paris, has estimated that 13 million euro per day, or in 65 million euro in total, the cost to the Egyptian economy latch-network.
Not to mention the long-term damage. Which investor will allocate its resources in a country that is blocking communications? Want to see the end of history, who will keep the network open and always will always be used, abused and berated God's money? I thank the web, sites, and all those who have robbed and feedback information, in particular Federico Cella, to compile this trivial comment. 
No one had expected. She did not believe anyone. The Net was the idea, the vision of an academic turned into reality. They said it was a military project. False. The story is different. For the first time there was a complex system with standard and de facto decision taken, by the entire community of users in a new form of decision tree, rather than de jure by a select few.
They tried to put it under control. They tried to adjust it, to force her. There have been successful for 43 years. We believed. We have nurtured the hope that it might be the tool that would allow new forms of democracy, reduced and eliminated inequalities, political or geographical isolation.
Many were sure that there was no way to turn it off. False. It can be shut down. They succeeded in 2005, Nepal and Burma in 2007. There could Mubarak. It is not a simple thing to do. There is no button to push, maybe red, a country to disconnect from the Net. Not yet at least ... Things are more complicated.
Local operators must be ordered to close their doors to the network at their disposal. In Egypt there are different providers: VodafoneRaya, Link Egypt, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, internetEgypt, NoorGroup, Yalla Online, and still others are all over 18. Obviously, it is especially easy if the local government is not really democratic.
The most elegant way is to change providers in order to properly routing tables of their nodes to block traffic to sites not welcome: social networks, and more Twetter Facebook, search engines, Google in the first place, to finish then any other site. Strategy of the boiled frog: put the frog in cold water, she will swim happily.
Light the fire. The frog in warm water is even more happy. When it starts to boil, the frog is cooked. Felice. You have not noticed anything. However if there was anyone that wants to play the hero, there is always the possibility to disconnect the power. Computers without electricity go out.
But move too brutal. The nodes of the network are, in addition to access, including for transit information. Should not turn them off altogether. Egypt has shut down its network and with it the dream that he was untouchable and indestructible, uncontrollable. Reference to overcome anxiety: you can turn off completely? Experts, never once being touched by the slightest doubt, declare that it is impossible.
The network, they say, is like the hydra. Cut a head, a link and other branches are generated on the network to reconnect the isolated nodes. If you break the network, cutting off a series of nodes so as to divide it into two pieces, each piece will still work. Always true? If the U.S. decided to close their network, can they? With what consequences at the global scale? Impossible, say other experts.
The U.S. does not do things like that. Too bad that in recent days the State Department has blocked a number of sites offering the opportunity to assist in streaming the SuperBowl. They did, legal experts say, because they have availed themselves of the laws and regulations on copyright.
What is the work of genius, the one that characterizes the work of a writer, for example, in a Superbowl game, not at all clear. So close in the U.S. sites can be done and it was done. Never heard of Joseph Lieberman, Susan Collins and Tom Carter and their brilliant bill: "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act", known to most with the sarcastic nickname "Kill Bill Switch"? Kill Switch those switches are characterized by a big red button that, with a handful in the event of an emergency stop device.
Do you think about the treadmill at the gym? Here, the same. Bill mean in English law, but is also an abbreviation of the name William and recalls the film Kill Bill. The one with the girl very angry with deadly sword. In short, Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut, an independent, Collins, Republican senator from Maine, and Carter himself, but the Delaware senator and Democrat, have proposed a law to give the U.S.
president the power on the Internet. In the case of an emergency of massive cyber attack or an episode of Cyberwar, providers, search engines, computer companies, operators in the telecoms / IT / Internet may be ordered anything in the interest of the country. Even closing all by pressing the infamous red button.
Of course, once the media have dealt with the issue - the U.S. media work pretty well - the best independent senator said no, no it was not true, you do not give Excessive powers to the President, there are no red buttons anti panic. Make sure to read paragraph 249 of the Act and decide for yourself.
Two more comments on the crisis in Egypt and the networked world. The first is that Vodafone has accused the Egyptian government to have improperly used his mobile telephone network to send swarms of SMS for the greater glory and honor of the government itself. The second is that the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, based in Paris, has estimated that 13 million euro per day, or in 65 million euro in total, the cost to the Egyptian economy latch-network.
Not to mention the long-term damage. Which investor will allocate its resources in a country that is blocking communications? Want to see the end of history, who will keep the network open and always will always be used, abused and berated God's money? I thank the web, sites, and all those who have robbed and feedback information, in particular Federico Cella, to compile this trivial comment.
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