Cracks Showing in the Libyan Firewall?

An anonymous reader writes "Most Libya Internet traffic has been blocked since the start of the uprisings on February 17. In what may be the first cracks in the Libya Internet firewall and a sign of the rapidly evolving political situation, Libya Internet traffic climbed over the weekend according to Arbor. Twitter updates also suggest the Internet is now working in eastern cities like Benghazi. Gaddafi may be losing control of his state telecom (Libya Telecom and Technology)?"

Comments

Re:How does the livestream come through

[Wyatt Earp]

There are two Libyas now.

The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - That's Gaddafi's Libya, its the government that use to run all of the geographical area we think of as Libya.
The National Libyan Council - is revolutionary Libya based on Benghazi, it's been under rebel control for over a week now.

Re:I suspect the US Government is doing something

[LanMan04]

The guy worked as an intelligence analyst under 7 different administrations (27 years) and was the guy who prepared/gave the daily intel briefing to the president for a lot of those years.

That gives him at least a *little* base credibility. He's not some "Don't taze me bro" protester.