Portable wireless Internet in a hostile country has other risks

This is cool and everything.

I just hope they know the risks; in that, this gear can be geolocated. Not unlike the WWII movie where you see the German radio direction finder van in the French countryside while the resistance radio operator is sending a signal. That didn't always end well.

Then there is that other problem.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called these circumvention technologies “a historic opportunity to effect positive change, change America supports.” However, there is the concern that the State Department's actions will be viewed not just as promoting free speech and protecting human rights, but as targeting foreign governments. Clay Shirky told the Times that the U.S. could particularly expose itself to charges of hypocrisy if the State Department outwardly supported regimes like Saudi Arabia or Bahrain, while at the same time building tools that would likely be used to destabilize them.

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