Re: Emergency meeting
Subject: Re: Emergency meeting
From: Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com>
Date: 1/29/11, 06:34
To: Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com>
CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>, Tim Ellis <dynamic@nocturnalcommissions.com>, Mano Singham <mano.singham@case.edu>, Todd Essig <tessig@me.com>, Robert Green <robertogreen@gmail.com>, Kenneth Lipp <kenneth.lipp@gmail.com>, Emma Allan <emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com>, Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>, Barry Eisler <barryeisler@mac.com>

Hey Jonathan - 
This is great info - you might find it easier to post this to the entire group by going to commons.projectpm.org .  I added one of these emails to the blog, and the other two links to the list of links for you... but everyone who wants to be involved in the Egyptian situation should be registered there and watching the group.  It's probably a more effective way to get people's attention than a mass email...

C
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Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com


Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

web www.trellon.com | email cvertesi@trellon.com
tel 347.329.4511 

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:
Al-Jaz live feed from Egypt in English:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:
More misc. info on Internet suppression in Iran (coming to a country near you soon!)

The Iranians are way ahead of the power curve on internet suppression.

One, they have no problem shutting down the web in their country. Outfitted with network management tools and deep packet inspection capability routed to them via China, the revolutionary guard has no problem blocking access. Sometimes a town is cut off or part of a city or a region - their kill switch is highly developed and not so course as to require a country wide shutdown.

Two, the Iranians have shutdown wireless networks too - people here loved stories about Twitter enabling protests, not knowing that the tools that Nokia Siemens had provided allowed the regime to locate the very phones and the very locations of such phones that were taking the videos and posting the tweets. The revolutionary guard simply had to fire up crystal reports to print out who to round up and interrogate afterward.

Three, the network monitoring is now so rationalized that local police stations are being staffed with internet police - if you are using your digital devices inappropriately, the dpi correlations will trigger an alert that will be passed to the local police station and the internet police will pay you a visit.

Iran has plenty of smart and well educated engineers (often times educated in western universities) that are assembling a flexible web of continuous surveillance over cyber-captive populations.

Now that Lebanon is completely an Iranian client state these tools will be applied there. And as these regimes in the Arab world fall expect the revolutionary guard to expand their influence by bargaining with the replacement regimes - all of whom will want to ensure the population doesn't turn on them.

Very true and very important. Iran even figured out the secret Tor handshake recently.


JK




On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:
List of Egyptian Sat. Channels still broadcasting:

http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Egypt.html


JK




On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:
Of possible interest: 

Egyptian Activists' Action Plan:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/11/01/translated-excerpts-from-egyptian-activists-action-plan/70388/

Re: Exception to Internet Shutdown:

[Link: www.renesys.com...]

One of the very few exceptions to this block has been Noor Group (AS20928), which still has 83 out of 83 live routes to its Egyptian customers, with inbound transit from Telecom Italia as usual. Why was Noor Group apparently unaffected by the countrywide takedown order? Unknown at this point, but we observe that the Egyptian Stock Exchange (www.egyptse.com) is still alive at a Noor address.


JK







On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:
Ladies and Gents - 
I assume most of us have heard about the Egypt situation by now:



Are we getting involved? Our recent success in helping out Tunisia gets me all excited to try the same thing in Egypt. Anyone interested?

C
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Campbell Vertesi
Bass

http://campbell.vertesi.com


Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

web www.trellon.com | email cvertesi@trellon.com
tel 347.329.4511 

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
We