Egypt Unplugged or How to Switch Off the Internet

"There was no giant lever or big red button involved, but in reality it was almost as easy: the Egyptian Government simply issued an order for ISPs to shut down service."

From Gizmodo

How Egypt Turned Off the Internet

Southern Sudan - The All Say "Yes!"

"The preliminary official results from southern Sudan’s independence vote prove unsurprising to Sudan-watchers. Figures posted over the weekend on the referendum commission’s website show that more than 99 percent of voters in the south’s plebiscite want secession for their oil-rich but everything-else-poor homeland."

From The Economist Blog Baobab

Still no name. Flag anyone?

WikiLeaks and The DOJ subpoenas

The US DOJ, in the the usual US subtle fashion, has demanded "....information 'about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009.'" - referring to Birgitta Jónsdóttir -- a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament.

The request "includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the 'means and source of payment,' including banking records and credit cards.  It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present."

Frankly a ridiculous amount of information even if her Twitter profile shows 1,126 tweets. I mean, seriously how many times has she logged on to Twitter in a year? As to 'means and source of payment' - I wish I could make money out of my Twitter account.

From Salon.com

DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers

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Spawning - The Sons of WikiLeaks

Besides the now recognized OpenLeaks setup by former Wikileaks members Herbert Snorrason, a 25-year-old Icelandic historian and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a German former hacker, the orginal site is spawning madly.

Get a crack at

• BrusselsLeaks - launched by a group of former European Union officials and journalists (note the "s")
• IndoLeaks - for Indonesia (not India)
• BalkanLeaks - for, well the Balkans (remember them?)
• TuniLeaks - no, not a Green campaign against over fishing. Tunisia this time (do they need to leak?).

And best of all

PirateLeaks - No. Wrong, nothing to do with the identity of the next customer the music business intends to sue for billions for downloading $20 worth of music.

This is the leak site of the the Czech Republic.

Must be something to do with Prague night clubs, or something like that.

From globalpost

Imitators create new WikiLeaks sites

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