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U.S. SPENDS MILLIONS TO HELP ACTIVISTS BRING DOWN THEIR GOVERNMENTS - REPORT
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 17, 2012 - 14:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The U.S. government is spending millions to help
activists communicate and bring down their governments.
As TechEYE reports citing the Sydney Morning Herald, the project,
called Commotion Wireless, has been putting the fear of god into
the spooks of various authoritarian regimes. The project is aimed at
undermining internet censorship in countries such as Iran and Syria.
The project is run by Sascha Meinrath and despite the fact it is
getting shedloads of U.S. money, it is based on some of the better
ideas of internet community access. It is designed to allow a
smartphone to connect with other smartphones, forming a "mesh network."
All good stuff and totally at odds with what is going on in the U.S. -
with the FBI trying to shut down such activity among its own citizens.
In fact there are some pretty good reasons why western governments
would not like to see such technology deployed in their countries. The
UK for example wants to monitor every email just in case it happens
to mention terrorist activities. However, if this sort of technology
becomes available it means that the only people who are in the
database are the ordinary people. There is no doubt that Meinrath's
hidden internet will be a major headache for anyone who wants to stop
anything on the net, the report says.
Issuing the technology in Iran, Syria and China will allow opposition
groups the freedom to talk to one another. However it will also weaken
regimes backed by the US such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Egypt and Libya had internet coups and these resulted in regimes
that the U.S. did not like either. Meinrath does not seem to have a
problem with that, but it looks like his ideas really will cause a
commotion or two, the report concludes.
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 17, 2012 - 14:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The U.S. government is spending millions to help
activists communicate and bring down their governments.
As TechEYE reports citing the Sydney Morning Herald, the project,
called Commotion Wireless, has been putting the fear of god into
the spooks of various authoritarian regimes. The project is aimed at
undermining internet censorship in countries such as Iran and Syria.
The project is run by Sascha Meinrath and despite the fact it is
getting shedloads of U.S. money, it is based on some of the better
ideas of internet community access. It is designed to allow a
smartphone to connect with other smartphones, forming a "mesh network."
All good stuff and totally at odds with what is going on in the U.S. -
with the FBI trying to shut down such activity among its own citizens.
In fact there are some pretty good reasons why western governments
would not like to see such technology deployed in their countries. The
UK for example wants to monitor every email just in case it happens
to mention terrorist activities. However, if this sort of technology
becomes available it means that the only people who are in the
database are the ordinary people. There is no doubt that Meinrath's
hidden internet will be a major headache for anyone who wants to stop
anything on the net, the report says.
Issuing the technology in Iran, Syria and China will allow opposition
groups the freedom to talk to one another. However it will also weaken
regimes backed by the US such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Egypt and Libya had internet coups and these resulted in regimes
that the U.S. did not like either. Meinrath does not seem to have a
problem with that, but it looks like his ideas really will cause a
commotion or two, the report concludes.