Showing posts with label arab 3gyp7 reuse computer digital access e-waste censorship. Show all posts
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News is starting to come out from our contacts in 3gyp7 recently.   The most noticeable thing is that all the messages written to one another in Arabic and in English have numerals sprinkled into almost every word.   The Technocrati or Geeks of Color are assuming that the government will try to filter and censor the internet, but they realize it's a task that only a machine could do, and are using tricks to foil the machine.

(This NYTimes article, appearing a week later, seems written to describe exactly our techie friends)

Egyp7 has long been one of the most important markets for used and repairable computers.  There's a saying in the "e-waste" reuse trade, that if you find a discarded computer with Egyptian handwriting on it, don't bother trying to repair it, as it could not possibly have been discarded without good reason.

During the past ten years, I've directly or indirectly exported hundreds of thousands of used computers.  Pakistan, Dubai, Egyp7, Malaysia and Indonesia have been, taken together, the largest market (Dubai is a free trade zone used for Iran, Iraq, and other markets with high trade barriers).  If you consider Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Cameroon as Islamic