Egypt adds a new weapon to its arsenal: turning off the Internet
In what's being considered an unprecedented move, Egypt has
managed to almost completely remove itself from the Internet,
disconnecting itself amid protests and fighting.  So, how does a
country go about turning the lights out on the World Wide Web?
Well, owning the companies that provide access certainly helps.
Soon after midnight on Friday morning in Egypt, the state-owned
ISPs serving the country went dark, effectively halting all
inbound and outbound traffic.  "According to our analysis, 88%
of the 'Egyptian internet' has fallen off the Internet," Andree
Toonk, an analyst at BGPmon, a monitoring site that checks
connectivity of countries and networks, told The Guardian.
"What's different in this case as compared to other 'similar'
cases is that all of the major ISPs seem to be almost completely
offline. Whereas in other cases, social media sites such as
Facebook and Twitter were typically blocked, in this case the
government seems to be tak