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Andrew Blum
Andrew Blum is a correspondent at
Wired
and a contributing editor at
Metropolis
. He is currently writing a book about the physical infrastructure of the Internet. Follow him on Twitter
@ajblum
.
Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points
Cairo pulled their network's plug. Where's ours?
Andrew Blum
January 28, 2011