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Posted Sun Feb 13 2011: from Huffington Post:
One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Internet Crackdown http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1297564708
The open Internet's role in popular uprising is now undisputed. Look no further than Egypt, where the Mubarak regime today reportedly shut down Internet and cell phone communications -- a troubling predictor of the fierce crackdown that has followed. What's even more troubling is news that one American company is aiding Egypt's harsh response through sales of technology that makes this repression possible.... Narus, now owned by Boeing, was founded in 1997 by Israeli security experts to create and sell mass surveillance systems for governments and large corporate clients. The company is best known for creating NarusInsight, a supercomputer system which is allegedly used by the National Security Agency and other entities to perform mass, real-time surveillance and monitoring of public and corporate Internet communications in real time. Narus provides Egypt Telecom with Deep Packet Inspection equipment (DPI), a content-filtering technology that allows network managers to inspect, track and target content from users of the Internet and mobile phones, as it passes through routers on the information superhighway.
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'Doc Michael says:
Total Information Awareness abhors a vacuum.
Imagine if this sort of power was maximally applied to attack the pro-ecosystem contingent. Imagine it next year. Now, imagine it next week.

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