technology in Myanmar

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: September 28, 2007 6:27:11 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: [PLEASE ANONYMIZE] technology in Myanmar

[DAVE, PLEASE ANONYMIZE]

Dave, for IP, if you wish...

Many IPers are rightly concerned about privacy.  The flow of
information, including personal information, has become almost
impossible to stop.  And governments and corporations have demonstrated
repeatedly that they will monitor people to the extent the technology
allows.

But it has its upside.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33IUp1jV2EuLDQXIOEBq_67rvlAD8RUIQ5O0

<snip>

"Modern technology has become the generals' worst enemy. There were only
rusty phones, if you could get through (in 1988)," says Bertil Lintner,
a Myanmar expert and author of several books on the country.

But on Friday, the government closed Internet access, at least
temporarily. It also cut some phone landlines and intensified
confiscation of mobile phones, said Aung Zaw, Burmese editor of the
independent Irrawaddy magazine in Thailand which covers Myanmar.

"The Internet was cut this afternoon. If you watch television, they are
showing images from yesterday," he said, predicting people would find
other ways to gain access this weekend and resume the outflow of
information.

The government suspended the services of the two Internet service
providers, BaganNet and Myanmar Post and Telecom, but big companies and
embassies hooked up to the Web by satellite remained online.

<snip>

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070928-burma- 
satellite.html

Satellite images of eastern Myanmar (Burma) seem to corroborate reports
of human-rights violations in the troubled Southeast Asian country, an
international team of experts announced today.

A detailed analysis of images spanning several years pinpoints locations
where villages have been burned, settlements have been relocated, and
military forces have expanded their camps.

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