Hacktivism in Egypt- Please Spread Widely
Useful information:
If you know anyone in Egypt right now please send them this info to allow folks to get around Egypt's censorship.
IP Address:
Web site addresses are actually a code that gets translated into the actual computer-language address that the site is at. A government can try and disconnect the alphanumeric address (twitter.com) from the real computer language-address (128.242.240.52) but you can still enter it by using these:
for twitter "128.242.240.52"
for google "72.14.204.99"
for facebook "69.63.189.34"
Tor:
Another way to get around any sort of censorship is to route your internet through a series of random servers around the world. This makes it nearly impossible for the government to block your access. (i.e. A hypothetical example is this: Say SF airport wants to stop flights from going from SF to Dallas. But they only control the SF airport. Its a lot harder to stop flights from going SF-Denver-Dallas or SF-LA-Dallas since they can't control those airports. Hope that makes sense.)
So they can get access to it tell folks to download Tor http://www.torproject.org/ which allows them to do this. It is awesome. Its a bit slower but totally designed for this kind of thing.
Hope all is well,
Chris
PS- This info applies to folks in any country to sidestep government censorship- China, Iran, etc.
PS- Protests have started in N. Yemen, citing solidarity with protestors in Tunisia/Egypt
Shorter version for forwarding:
for twitter "128.242.240.52"
for google "72.14.204.99"
for facebook "69.63.189.34"
for all internet (slower and requires download) http://www.torproject.org/
for twitter "128.242.240.52"
for google "72.14.204.99"
for facebook "69.63.189.34"
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