U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators

[The Patriot]

Spencer Ackerman -- Wired, Mon, 02/07/2011The U.S. military has no shortage of devices — many of them classified — that could restore connectivity to a restive populace cut off from the outside world by its rulers. It’s an attractive option for policymakers who want an option for future Egypts, between doing nothing and sending in the Marines. And it might give teeth to the Obama administration’s demand that foreign governments consider internet access an inviolable human right.

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