I found this interesting - "have gone so far as to establish an independent “mesh” of connections". Mesh networks were pretty big during the last .com boom (in principle anyway) maybe they'll make a comeback thanks to repressive governments?<p>I want my Paranoid Linux!
I sense there is going to be a special desire for non internet based phone-to-phone laptop to laptop network protocol for Egypt in the future. I thought OLPC was working on that kind of computer-to-computer network technology.<p>Egypt looks like the right place to start completely decentralizing the internet away from ISP's, making it peer to peer so in order to shut down the internet, you have to power down every device.