US Bankrolls 'Shadow Internet For Dissidents' Abroad

US Bankrolls 'Shadow Internet For Dissidents' Abroad

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The US government is financing the development of "shadow" Internet systems to enable dissidents abroad to get around government censors, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The newspaper said the covert effort also includes attempts to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries.

The operation involves a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype "Internet in a suitcase," the report said.

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One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'

Well if there was any doubt that there was indeed a shadow govenment at work behind the scenes in the uprisings in Egypt, and Libya, this bit of news clinches it.

The information released is in the below referenced article in The New York Times.

With a grant of $2 million from The State Department, these projects develop stealth technology, pull together tools that have already been created by hackers from the so-called liberation technology movement, and have
been and will be used in by activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like Iran, Syria and Libya.

This further lends credence to the recent revelations about the underground world of computer hackers having been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI, and other alphabet agencies.




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I have believed their was a shadow Government at work in the Arab uprising, but not because of this.

My personal reasons include "where did the funding and organization come from for these uprisings"?

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