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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by markovbot on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:12PM (#21141779)
sure, but they have to have the hardware for that ready to go, and they have to get people deploy each site and prevent it from being vandalized or disabled
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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by viraptor on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:31AM (#21146199)
Wideband noise generators are cheap and trivial to make. Giving them more power is a bit more tricky. If satellite internet becomes a norm, I'd be surprised if most armies didn't end up with one of them.
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