El gobierno de Egipto hackea los servidores de Vodafone enviando mensajes de texto a favor de Mubarak

One of the largest mobile providers in Egypt said the regime of Hosni Mubarak sent unattributed pro-regime text messages out over its network. And it’s not happy about the hack.

A Vodafone statement said that “since the start of the protests” the regime has used emergency authorities to send “messages to the people of Egypt.” Rival providers Mobinil and Etisalat are subject to the same authority. None of the messages are “scripted by any of the mobile-network operators and we do not have the ability to respond to the authorities on their content.”

People in Egypt have been surprised to receive unsolicited texts expressing support for the regime. Mubarak’s government shut down internet and cellular communications between Friday and Wednesday in an unsuccessful attempt to stop mass demonstrations calling for Mubarak’s resignation. But it evidently had a strategy to send disinformation and confusion straight to demonstrators’ phones.

Una de las mejores formas de desastibilizar y atemorizar a la gente es cortar sus medios de comunicación. A pesar de los intentos por evitar una manisfestación masiva, el poder humano pudo más. China es otro ejemplo de totalitarismo web, reclutando y contratando a hordas de bloggers quienes se dedican a escribir a favor del sistema político y son los encargados de subir la moral de los seguidores del partida comunista chino, el control social por parte de los propios individuos es una herramienta gratuita de control que todos los estados usan.

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