RE: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-29 Thread Keith Medcalf
Daniel Belin wrote onĀ 2011-05-28: > Interesting, there now seems to be a trend of middle eastern countries > cutting themselves off from the Internet, > I think we will see more of this kind of behavior happening in the next > few years, as the web has become a real threat to totalitarian and >

Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-28 Thread Jared Mauch
On May 28, 2011, at 3:23 PM, ML wrote: > Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during that > same time period? Running a SIP honeypot will help you identify who the bad actors are here. There's a few numbers (and countries) to make sure you block. You should be able

Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-28 Thread Daniel Belin
Interesting, there now seems to be a trend of middle eastern countries cutting themselves off from the Internet, http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/05/iran_plans_to_cut_off_from_the.php I think we will see more of this kind of behavior happening in the next few years, as the web has beco

Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-28 Thread Zaid Ali
I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government truly believes in Internet freedom. Many factions of the Egyptian government was to get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this might be a way to do just that. What would be interesting is if there is a law passed p

Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-28 Thread ML
On 5/28/2011 12:18 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was costing Egypt. Well, here is an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low to me). Regards Marshall http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/2