| The NY times descibes this as: "The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy "shadow" Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments." The unintended consequences of this are incredible to imagine. it is pure sci-fi. How many people know about this? "Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet. "The American effort, revealed in dozens of interviews, planning documents and classified diplomatic cables obtained by The New York Times, ranges in scale, cost and sophistication.Some projects involve technology that the United States is developing; others pull together tools that have already been created by hackers in a so-called liberation-technology movement. |
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