Foreign Policy on 7 new cables released today on Egypt torture. “These particular cables no doubt were released when they were to drive home the hypocrisy of the U.S. government’s dealings with the Mubarak, and they do that quite handily.”
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U.S. companies are involved in providing technology that helps the Egyptian government to crack down on communications and monitor protestors on the Internet and mobile phones.
A U.S. company appears to have sold Egypt technology to monitor Internet and mobile phone traffic that is possibly being used by the ruling regime to crack down on communications as protests erupt throughout the country.
Boeing-owned, California-based company Narus sold Telecom Egypt, the state-run Internet service provider, “real-time traffic intelligence” equipment, more commonly known as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology.
Egypt severs internet connections.
Egypt began shutting down all internet services at 10:12 p.m. local time Thursday night because the country is facing increasing political unrest including clashes between tens of thousands of protesters and security forces. According to Jim Crowie, chief technology officer at a network security company in New Hampshire, Egypt no longer existed on the internet by 10:25 p.m.
Egypt also shut down its cell phone services with the cooperation of international companies. Vittorio Colao, chief executive of Vodafone Group, PLC, spoke about the situation at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Colao said Egyptian authorities requested mobile operators to “turn down the network totally”. Vodafone Group PLC, based in the U.K., owns 55% of the biggest carrier in Egypt, Vodafone Egypt. Colao said the request to shut down services was consistent with Egyptian law but hoped they would soon reverse the decision and take a different approach.
Dozens of internet providers in Egypt depend on Telecom Egypt and four other big carriers to provide internet connectivity. After Telecom Egypt shut down at 10:12 p.m., the other four carriers followed suit over the next 13 minutes.
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