Egyptian Internet is Down

So Egypt has decided to not wait for external forces to relieve them from an authoritarian regime and bring them democracy. Inspired by Tunisia they have taken to the streets and get organised. The response from the local government is quite simple, kill the Internet

source: BGPmon.net Blog

It seems as well that even phone communications are down. Another thing is the technology that has been used to do deep packet inspection, it seems that a U.S.A. based company has sold DPI technologies to Egypt. FreePress has started a campaign about their concerns on the topic.