[Imc-makerspace] What’s Fueling Mideast Protests? It’s More Than Twitter | Danger Room | Wired.com

[Stewart Dickson]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/social-media-oppression/
> “People are scared,” Mansour said. While reports have circulated that 
> Egyptian protesters were finding ways to get to blocked sites like 
> Facebook or Twitter and setting up Tor protocols 
> <http://www.torproject.org/>, “a lot of the circumvention tools and 
> resources people have been developing were dependent on having some 
> sort of internet exposure.” Mansour hears that sporadic cellphone 
> outages have been spreading from protest-prone areas of Cairo and may 
> go nationwide imminently. “The only way for transferring information 
> is through Bluetooth,” he said.

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