Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By James Glanz and John Markoff, New York Times, February 15, 2011
An eye-opening report on the
....dark achievement that many had thought impossible in the age of global connectedness....
Because the Internet’s legendary robustness and ability to route around blockages are part of its basic design, even the world’s most renowned network and telecommunications engineers have been perplexed that the Mubarak government succeeded in pulling the maneuver off.
But now, as Egyptian engineers begin to assess fragmentary evidence and their own knowledge of the Egyptian Internet’s construction, they are beginning to understand what, in effect, hit them. Interviews with many of those engineers, as well as an examination of data collected around the world during the blackout, indicate that the government exploited a devastating combination of vulnerabilities in the national infrastructure.....
Comments
For me, that move was the most intriguing thing about events in Egypt. It was just such a stupid thing to do politically it makes me wonder if perhaps it was not Mubarak but his enemies who did it.
I know. Tinfoil hat time. I will move on now.
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 3:41pm