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Weapons that fit in a suitcase
by charvaka Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:17 pm
First it was RDX, then there was talk of a dirty bomb in a suitcase (and a mushroom cloud to go with it.) Now comes a much more powerful weapon that fits in a suitcase: the internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?_r=4
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
Keith Berkoben/Fab Folk
Volunteers have built a wireless Internet around Jalalabad, Afghanistan, from off-the-shelf electronics and ordinary materials. More Photos »
By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF
Published: June 12, 2011
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow”
Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine
repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or
shutting down telecommunications networks.
The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone
networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy
novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of
young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are
fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet
in a suitcase.”
Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be
secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless
communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?_r=4
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
Keith Berkoben/Fab FolkVolunteers have built a wireless Internet around Jalalabad, Afghanistan, from off-the-shelf electronics and ordinary materials. More Photos »
By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF
Published: June 12, 2011
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow”
Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine
repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or
shutting down telecommunications networks.
The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone
networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy
novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of
young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are
fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet
in a suitcase.”
Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be
secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless
communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet.
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