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Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores
bs0d3 writes "In the face of oil protests on their 20th independence day, Kazakhstan has blocked the internet and disabled cellphone towers in the city of Zhanaozen. As with previous internet blackouts, hactivist group telecomix is putting together free dial-up servers for people blacked out in this region."
is misleading.
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now they can still update their facebook status, and the world will continue to turn
Very nice!
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Who still has a modem thats capable of dial-up????
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Cellular telephone and Internet connections in Zhanaozen have been out of service since the Friday violence, making independent verification of the security situation impossible.
An independent verification of events does not mean contacting a stranger on Facebook who purports to be from the area and asking him how many people the government killed today. But that's what the quoted portion implies.
Must enable low tech solution to circumvent Kazakhstan Government.
No time to argue.
Whilst this is amusing I suppose it would not be funny for the people that lost their internet connection... I would just curl up and die without on-demand internet access!
When life throws questions at you, Google has the answers.
This is the wet dream of the MPAA/RIAA. SOPA is the next big step down this road.
So, take a moment to write, call, or visit your representative to voice your opposition to censorship.
If you think "Oh, it's just that country", you really need to think again.
The story came from the Washington Post so all manner of journalists know of it, and internally, word of mouth is almost as quick and just as effective as tweeting, facebooking, etc. When will governments realize that even their best efforts to control information are akin to holding back an ocean with a leaky sieve?
cb_is_cool knows where his towel is.
TFA states that oil workers fired over the summer want hire wages. Must be a great place, where people expect to get paid after getting fired from a job. I don't really get what is there to black out about this news, aside from the fact that the country is also being hit with jihadi violence, which TFA mentioned. If the jihadis win, one more oil rich country joins the ranks of Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, making the world less safe.
Really wish the move towards Thorium powered nuclear would accelarate, reducing oil consumptions to levels that OPEC countries would find it impossible to sell much of it anymore.
At least in the Land of the Free we don't kill protesters. We just pepper spray them, beat them senseless, and arrest them only to let them go 24 hours later without charges.
America's dead. Long live America.
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Who is providing the information that the internet has been shut down there? Google data doesn't seem to indicate this so far (http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/), so where are we getting this information from? Not saying it isn't happening, I just like at least 1 source to backup stories that involve the internet being cut off to an entire nation...
Get a web developer
Other than e-mail, what is the best way to get your message across (probably text only) to the largest number of people?
Some sort of newsgroup, bulletin board? Or is it twitter? (But then you need to have a following right? I don't know, I don't tweet).
Heaven forbid that we (in the democratic west) ever face this problem but maybe while traveling we might face a situation where just getting a few characters out of info could mean a world of difference. I'm reminded of the time when that Israeli scientist who blew the cover on their nuclear program was caught. As he was being transported via a van in front of a bunch of photographers, he pressed his palm up to the glass where, clearly legible, was a short message (I think it said where he had been kidnapped). I think there was another short message sent by a journalist right when he was being taken in by the Egyptian police (a long time ago) which helped keep him from "disappearing".
Hope that never, ever happens to me. Maybe having a tiny USB modem should be part of my travel kit.
You can't stop the signal.
Other than e-mail, what is the best way to get your message across (probably text only) to the largest number of people?
Some sort of newsgroup, bulletin board? Or is it twitter? (But then you need to have a following right? I don't know, I don't tweet).
Heaven forbid that we (in the democratic west) ever face this problem but maybe while traveling we might face a situation where just getting a few characters out of info could mean a world of difference. I'm reminded of the time when that Israeli scientist who blew the cover on their nuclear program was caught. As he was being transported via a van in front of a bunch of photographers, he pressed his palm up to the glass where, clearly legible, was a short message (I think it said where he had been kidnapped). I think there was another short message sent by a journalist right when he was being taken in by the Egyptian police (a long time ago) which helped keep him from "disappearing".
Hope that never, ever happens to me. Maybe having a tiny USB modem should be part of my travel kit.
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Twitter hashtags - you don't need followres, you just have to know what the hashtag is and you can find it by following other people?
We used to use usenet. Simple and effective. RIP
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We still have reporter borat who has access to the internet to still receive and send information from.
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It adds more to the conversation that using buzzwords like "hacktivist".
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... we need an amendment to the US constitution that says something to the tune of "deliberately disrupting access to communications between free people not convicted of crime, for any reason, is considered an act of terrorism and will be tried as such".
Obviously with few exclusions and clearer definitions.
Imagine if people in public service, with ability to manipulate services, that disagree with members of the public, begin to discriminate selectively or bluntly but deliberately in an attempt to defeat that which they disagree with (legal, or otherwise unconvicted). I know we saw it with the Bay Area BART protests. This *cannot* become accepted or normal in any way; this cannot be allowed.
We used to use usenet. Simple and effective. RIP
We used to use RIP, too. And later, RIPv2. RIP RIP.
Even if you don't have a large following on Twitter, for things like this situation, there is almost always a hashtag for the protest in use. For Egypt, it was #jan25, so if you wanted to send a message about Egypt to as many people as possible, you send a message with #jan25 somewhere in it, and people would easily find it, and retweet it to their followers.
Abstractly, in a lot of ways a hashtag on Twitter is like an asynchronous equivalent to an IRC channel, in that you can search for it and get any messages from that tag at any time, and share them with your followers. Hope that helps.
Disagree != mod troll.
Seriously I get really tired of this garbage of every time a story comes up about protests in another nation, that some people seem to need to try and make it about the US. How STFU? This is about Kazakhstan, and the people there. Not about the US.
I don't really care what your reasons are for posts like this, they are annoying and stupid. If it is some kind of moral equivalence crap like "Oh the US does some bad stuff so none of their citizens should ever be able to talk about anywhere else," then it is stupid, and shows extreme ignorance. If it is a case of trying to make everything about you and your nation rather than anywhere else that it is extremely egotistical and arrogant.
When something comes up about protests, crackdowns, whatever in another nation how about keeping it on that topic? Talk about the US stuff in the threads about the US stuff, of which there are plenty.
great, so the 10 people in that armpit of a country who have internet can't do squat - the rest can continue to farm rocks
Would you two a-holes just go get a room, please?
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
More or less all a modem is in a laptop these days is the hardware to convert the impedance and voltage to work with the 48v balanced phone system. There is no logic, it is all handled in software. Computers are so powerful it isn't hard to do anymore and there's no real performance issue. As such adding one to a system is dirt cheap.
Also there are some geeks, like me, that still have a modem laying around. I have an old USR Courier in my closet. Should I need it for any reason, like when I move to a new place and am waiting on cable to get hooked up (though they are much faster now) I have it. I haven't used it in years, particularly what with having a smartphone, but I still keep it because why not?
One small step for the Internet...one facefloor for yet another primarily Muslim country oppressing their people while simultaneously claiming Western countries are somehow inferior...
*sigh*...If you're going to try to prove Western society inferior, can you perhaps try making yourselves look better instead of making Western society look good?
It adds more to the conversation that using buzzwords like "hacktivist".
I happen to like that word. What's wrong with it?
English is a bastard language, stealing from wherever and then mangling what it stole into whatever form it pleases. What's your problem?
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.
Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
It’s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan’s
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might penis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
A "hacktivist" is someone who is either a Black Hat or a Grey Hat who uses their skills for political activist purposes rather than curiosity, non-directional malice, boredom or because they have a script. It has a definite meaning, it serves a definite purpose, so it's not a buzzword. It may be overused, but that's not the word's fault.
I don't know if the word is in the OED yet, but if it is then it is a proper word. The OED is the bastion of the English Language and what it say goes. It is the only definitive source for the language and therefore any word therein is a part of the language.
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This really doesn't surprise me. I have family members who have been there for the past several months. They were there officially as English teachers, although honestly their main purpose was mission work. They had planned on staying for a year with their team, but after several events that happened in the past month or so, they ultimately had to pull out their team.
About a month or so ago, there was a gunman who went on a killing spree. You can read the details online, but I think he killed something like 8 or 9 people. It was reported that he was a religious extremist, but of course the Kazakhstan government is playing down that aspect and claiming they were just "know criminals with a know criminal history committing more crimes." A week after that happened, the Peace Corps pulled out all their staff and workers almost overnight. The Peace Corps had been there since 1993, and they were quoted as saying that the violence had just gotten to too dangerous of a level. They also said that Kazakhstan had the highest reported level of sexual assaults and rapes of ANY country that the Peace Corps is stationed in. Although to be clear, I do not know if they were referring to assault/rape rates in general, or just assaults/rapes committed against Peace Corps members.
About 3 weeks after the gunman, which was in a country about 100 miles from them, a very tragic event happened. One of their team members was found dead in his apartment by his roommate, who was also on their team. Their whole group, which is part of the Campus Crusade organization, has been very tight lipped about the whole ordeal. They claim that they have NO idea what happened to him, and aren't saying one way or another how he died. But according to a major Kazakhstan news organization, it was a murder. http://en.tengrinews.kz/crime/6036/ They reported that he was found with a bag over his head, and they also quote the police as saying that it was a murder, they just don't have a motive or a suspect at this time. There is even a reference to the Interior Department looking into it, which I assume is something like their version of the State Department. About 5 days after this all happened, they were out of the country. They would have been out faster, but the logistics of getting everything finalized and getting plane tickets took longer than they had anticipated.
So the fact that the government is cutting off the internet doesn't surprise me. Kazakhstan just recently passed a law putting much harsher restrictions on religious freedom and expression. It has not historically been a country with a high level of fundamental Islam and terrorism, but that has started to change lately. They are trying very hard to keep their country from spiraling downward into a unstable region, as they are the #1 producer of oil in Central Asia. I think they have their minds in the right place, but I am afraid that the new restrictions will backfire on them.
I don't generally agree with what my sister and brother in law are doing, and I don't think it is right that they are trying to get people to change their religion. I also think it was dishonest in how they got into the country. As far as the government of Kazakhstan is concerned, they were there as English teachers. The country apparently allows a certain number of official missionaries in each year, but is a very low number. So it was much easy and faster to get in as English teachers. They did actually teach lessons during the week, but it was only so they could meet college students to try and converse with about religion. But regardless of my opinions about what they were doing, it was obvious that they needed to get out of there. Campus Crusade really wanted them to be there, as they consider it a country with great potential. So for them to pull out really says something to me as to the safety and stability of the country.
It really is a shame to see a country with a mostly moderate Islam population to start to be overrun by fundamentalist. There are alread
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I'd recommend RFC1149. It's slow and a lot less reliable than what we're used to, but less susceptible to having cables cut, ISPs shut down or routers powered off.
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I think the good folks at the OED would take issue with your description. The OED is NOT definitive. It is documentative. They do not define words; they document how words are used. There is a BIG difference (at least in terms of operational philosophy and epistemological underpinnings) /rantonlyalinguistcouldlove
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I don't know if the word is in the OED yet, but if it is then it is a proper word. The OED is the bastion of the English Language and what it say goes. It is the only definitive source for the language and therefore any word therein is a part of the language.
I immediately looked it up on reading your comment. I happen to be the proud possessor of a paper OED copy. The word "hacktivistst"not in there, alas, among pretty words like "hackmanite" and "hackbushier". But then, the latest OED version is from 1989....
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
....is a godawfully forsaken country. I once had an affair with a Parisian lady whose husband had gone, for work, to Kazakhstan, a year earlier. He happened to take a picture of the wrong building. The Kazakh secret service arrested him, locked him up for six months and beat him senseless. On the testicles, that is. Obviously not much has changed in Kazakhstan, yet.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
Point of reference: lesbian vaginal sex.
Why do you assume that nothing has progressed since those places were opened in in the 1990s? That's a very strange assumption if you ask me and implies that you think the place should have stayed as it was.
The above poster just clearly has no clue what a "developed country" is.
But it is susceptible to falcon-in-the-middle attacks.
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Thanks for explaining it, captain obvious!
It adds more to the conversation that using buzzwords like "hacktivist".
I happen to like that word. What's wrong with it?
English is a bastard language, stealing from wherever and then mangling what it stole into whatever form it pleases. What's your problem?
Yes the English language had diverse roots but came to a standardised form MANY moons ago, which is now being FUCKING MANGLED BY STUPID "buzzwords" and the blatherskites like you who not only promote the use of this poxy nonsense thinking it makesd them sound cool.
it doesn't, it makes you sound like quite a cunt
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Don't you guys mean ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
Thanks. I guess I should set up an (emergency) twitter account.
Is there a publicly accessible database of all the twitter hashtags? So I'd know which ones to "broadcast" on? (like #takenbypolice or something like that?)
Yes the English language had diverse roots but came to a standardised form MANY moons ago ...
Hogwash! As recently as Churchill ("... up with which, I will not put!"), it's been a lively language. Hell, all you need to do is put an Englishman in a room with a Scot, an Irish, an Aussie/Zealander, a Canuck, and a North and a South US-ian, and you'll be hard pressed to understand what anyone's saying. Extra points if the Englishman is Cockney.
The French have been trying to set their language in stone for quite a while by law, and look how that's turned out.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
Why is that that the first time I hear about massive protests in Kazakhstan is a post on /. about hactivists doing an end run around an internet shutdown?
Oh, yeah, I remember now... because I live in the good old USA where we have freedom of the press. That is freedom of the 6 (or is it 5 now) media corporations to ignore whatever they want.
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-time-magazine-covers-explain-why-americans-know-nothing-about-the-world-2011-11
-- QED
Has nobody heard of Hinternet? Too lazy too log in. KD8PJH
The only person in that room speaking English is the English person. The rest are speaking dialogues of it. Modern English was standardised with Shakespeare. I agree with your previous post but no this one.
Cockney's interesting and different, although it's still English, it's deliberately obfuscated.