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A dark lesson from the world. Turn off internet before shooting protesters dead.
by lostlogin 10mo ago
A dark lesson from the world. Turn off internet before shooting protesters dead.
- stogot 10mo agoOr if it happens before the Internet, create a Great Firewall to block and censor any mention of it. [Tianemen Square]
- perihelions 10mo agoHow they exfiltrated footage of the 1989 massacre is an interesting story in its own right. The AP photojournalist who captured (among others) Tank Man couldn't safely walk the streets, so he recruited a random tourist to smuggle his film rolls, in his underwear, from the hotel to the AP's press office. > [Jeff Widener] "I had earlier accomplished my mission of photographing the occupied Tiananmen Square so I gave all my rolls of film to Kurt/Kirk who smuggled it back to the A.P. office in his underwear. The long-haired college kid was wearing a dirty Rambo T-shirt, shorts and sandals. Security would never suspect him of being a journalist." https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/0... From the AP office, it was scanned (?) and exfiltrated with a dial-up modem, over copper telephone landlines (unsure of the technology. 1980's gadgets).
- tsol 10mo agoIn the USA we manage to do that without turning the internet off by just saying they were resisting the police.