The United States, according to a report in the New York Times provides means for shadow networks, with which one can circumvent censorship by dictatorships against the Internet and mobile networks. This includes, for example, a wireless peer-to-Peer (P2P), which can be constructed with a number of computers in inconspicuous bags. According to the newspaper, the U.S. State Department under Clinton, Hillary will invest $ 70 million by 2011 (49 million €) in such projects.
The case mentioned network of mobile phones and laptops subsidize the U.S., for example, with two million dollars (1.4 million euros). The technicians at the New America Open Technology initiative to develop a self-configuring mesh network, however without a central server, where each unit has contact with several other devices. The cases are equipped with small antennas to increase the wireless range. The network is administered from a laptop computer. A prototype of the trunk network was already tested successfully in Vienna, they say.
A second project, the swallows, according to the New York Times $ 50 million (35 million €), is called “Palisades” (Palisades). In his frame to transmission towers for mobile networks in U.S. military bases in Afghanistan are set up. It has been shown that transmission towers outside the bases of the Taliban were vulnerable to attack.
In a third case mobile phones are buried on the border between North Korea and China, which will be used by North Korean dissidents, writes the Times. The dissidents could dig up the equipment at night and then use for their communication. These phones are inconspicuous and can be combined with China’s mobile phone networks. Radio Free Asia, funded by the United States, one radio station, set the technology as a help for his radio broadcasts.
Hillary Clinton said in a statement to the New York Times: “We watch as more and more people use on the entire world, the Internet, mobile phones and other technologies to give their voice in protest against injustices and to implement their ideas heard. We have an historic opportunity to initiate positive changes. changes that support America.’s why we focus on the people to help you do just that. We help them in dialogue among themselves, in dialogue with their communities, their governments and around the world. “
The idea apparently originated with a look at the role the Internet played in the recent riots in Egypt and other countries. The government there tried to impede the exchange of information or – in the case of Egypt – to block completely.
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