Apologies in advance. This is not directly related to Tor. However, it's inspiring and is related to the circumvention of bad actors attempting to restrict people's communication. And, maybe they did use Tor, too! ;-) Excerpt: The Wall Street Journal today brings us an amazing story of a few smart engineers, a couple of big-money backers, and one enormous hardware hack. But todays tale of Libyan rebels and a few international telecom experts hijacking the Libyana cellphone service from strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafis government isnt just another chapter in an ongoing story. Its poignant--perhaps even prescient--reminder of the way 21st century technology is reshaping the geopolitical landscape. Since Irans Twitter Revolution and Egypts successful ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak (largely organized via social networking tools), plenty has been written about the role of social media in political revolution and freedom on the whole. But social media relies on the Web, and in cases of revolution dictatorial regimes often do what they do best: they pull the levers of power, in this case the lever that shuts down the Web. Full article: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-04/massive-hardware-hack-libya... Referenced Wall Street Journal article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703841904576256512991215284.ht... Take care, Chris _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE