The ‘Facebook Youth’ attest to this fact.  This is a group of youth numbering about 64,000 linked to the opposition April 6 Movement, who have and are still using the internet, and are members of a facebook group opposed to  Hosni Mubarak’s government’s human rights and democratic track record.

Thirty members of the group were arrested on July 23 as they were demonstrating opposing Mubarak, arrests have continued till August 4 though most of them have not been formally charged.

Due to ISP connivance with the government most have been using internet cafes to access Facebook though, with new rules requiring the users to fill out their names, email addressess and phone addresses before the use the internet cafes they may now be in jeopardy.

According to Menasaat, many big internet cafes are already enforcing this rule.  The cafes have given out the lame excuse of trying ….”to decrease credit card and identity theft.”

Further to this a draft media bill has leaked to the Egyptian media, which if passed will have the president controlling all video and audio transmissions in Egypt, including the internet.  This will spell doom for Facebook activists, bloggers and website publishers as they will face legal repercussions.

Despite this the activists are undeterred, often checking and passing information to each other about internet cafes which do not enforce the rules, so that others can use them.

Here is everything you need to read classified email and fuck up some serious International business. Hopefully this will put light on the security problems that are never talked about and get at least this fixed with a speed that you never seen your government work before. As a Swedish citizen I can’t give this information to anyone without getting into trouble, so instead I’m giving it to everyone.

Egerstad subsequently claimed that the United States shut down his site. (Egerstad’s in Sweden.) Later, he explained what he did and how. If you’re capable of following it, you are far more technically adept than I.

Five ToR exit nodes, at different locations in the world, equipped with our own packet-sniffer focused entirely on POP3 and IMAP traffic using a keyword-filter looking for words like “gov, government, embassy, military, war, terrorism, passport, visa” as well as domains belonging to governments. This was all set up after a small experiment looking into how many users encrypt their mail where one mail caught my eye and got me started thinking doing a large scale test. Each user is not only giving away his/her passwords but also every mail they read or download together with all other traffic such as web and instant messaging.

Did you get it? These governments told their users to use ToR, a software that sends all your traffic through not one but three other servers that you know absolutely nothing about. Yes, two are getting encrypted traffic but that last exit node is not. There are hundreds of thousands ToR-users but finding these kinds of accounts was… hmm… chocking! The person who wrote the security policy on these accounts should reconsider changing profession, start cleaning toilets! These administrators are responsible for giving away their own countries secrets to foreigners. I can’t call it a mistake, this is pure stupidity and not forgivable!