This latest 'Iran is going to disconnect the Internet' paroxysm originated from a year-old April Fools joke that was resubmitted to a popular social media aggregator last week. The meme exploded across Persian-language blogs within the day.
Not only is it not posturing, it is factually incorrect. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Zebro kojos <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/iran-plans-to-unplug-the-internet-launch-its-own-clean-alternative.ars > > Perhaps there are more sources with more detailed/sourced info. > > Thought this was relevant. > > I wonder whether they plan / the idea would be to completely detach from > any foreign communications, save for some 'approved' nodes for banks and > such. > > I suppose if the Dark net plan were more mature at this point, it would be > possible to theorize the creation of a mediating cluster of nodes connected > to the internet via wifi-darknet / whatnot, that would rebroadcast to the > local darknet via wifi etc. > > But holy damn. (I suppose the Iranian plan is premature etc., but still.) > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
