[AusNOG] "Egypt Leaves the Internet"

[John Lindsay]

Last week at PTC I was told by a submarine cable contractor that Egypt is refusing to allow new submarine cables passing through their territory (that's pretty much any cable heading west to Europe) to be brought in to service until Egypt is allowed to tap them.

I wonder if this is more a sign of the paranoia of the Mubarak regime and its treatment of the Egyptian people leading to an uprising or if the uprising has been boosted by countries with a direct interest in getting the cables involved in to service?

The USA has a long track record of destabilising countries in pursuit of their own economic agenda so why shouldn't India for instance start playing the same game?

jsl

On 28/01/2011, at 2:37 PM, Terry Manderson wrote:

> My guess is that it may be a political move to limit the exposure of some political unrest occurring in Egypt right now toward Hosni Mubarak [ http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/ ]. Mubarak is current Pres of the Arab republic of Egypt.
> 
> So I suspect the outage will be temporary while the "issue" is "contained" ... as if that _ever_ works.
> 
> Terry
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> On 28/01/2011, at 2:00 PM, James Troy wrote:
> 
>> i would love to embrace the future, now if only our upstream would too.
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kevin Wakefield <KevinW at diamondgroup.net.au> wrote:
>> Let it go, Damien....embrace the future
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Damien Morris
>> Sent: Friday, 28 January 2011 2:34 PM
>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "Egypt Leaves the Internet"
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>> On 28/01/11 2:29 PM, "Matt Carter" <matt at iseek.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Interesting read
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action
>>> unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to
>>> have ordered service providers to shut down all international
>>> connections to the Internet.
>>> 
>>> Source
>>> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
>>> ----
>>> 
>> 
>> We can reclaim and extend ipv4 a bit further, then.
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