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Engineers Hijack Libyan Phone Network For Rebels

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Col. Moammar Gadhafi's cellphone network and re-establish their own communications. The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations, is giving more than two million Libyans their first connections to each other and the outside world after Col. Gadhafi cut off their telephone and Internet service about a month ago."

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  1. Gank! by LordStormes · · Score: 1, Funny

    All Your Web Are Belong to Us.

    WTG rebels!

  2. Re:Important Victory for the Rebel Alliance by Haedrian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its not like communications and the invention of the radio changed warfare and coordination forever.

  3. Slashdot Solution by PPH · · Score: 1, Funny

    1) Hijack Libyan phone network.
    2) Restore rebel communications.
    3) Route Gadhafi loyalists calls through your $5.99/min sex chat line or call forwarding service.
    4) ????
    5) Profit!

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  4. Verizon ads in Libya. by Roskolnikov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you fear me? How about now?

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