Subject: Egypt Turns Off the Internet!
From: "Jack Berndt" <[email-masked]>
To: "Cuca" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jody" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:00:02 -0600

Interesting article in light of recent events...

Yet despite this decentralized design, the reality is that most traffic passes through vast centralized exchanges - potential choke points that allow many nations to monitor, filter or in dire cases completely stop the flow of Internet data. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/technology/16internet.html?_r=1&hp