Libya Using a Different Internet Strategy than Egypt

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Libya Using a Different Internet Strategy than Egypt

By CircleID Reporter
March 07, 2011, 7:59 pm PST Views: 5,455 Add Comment

In a Renesys blog post, James Cowie writes: “Why did Libya put its Internet in ‘warm standby mode’ instead of just taking it down, as Egypt did? Perhaps because they’re learning from Mubarak’s experience. Cutting off the Internet at the routing level (powering down the Internet exchange point, going after the remaining providers with secret police to enact a low-level shutdown) was a technically unsophisticated desperation move on Egypt’s part.” ... “So far, these symptoms match what was experienced during the Egyptian Internet blackout pretty closely. But the underlying technical implementation couldn’t have been more different. Look very closely at that Google plot again [see Google Transparency Report], and observe the floor. It’s not perfectly flat, is it? That’s because the Libyan Internet is actually still alive, even though almost all traffic is blocked from traversing it.”

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