Obama’s ‘Internet in a Suitcase’ sneaks free speech across borders
The Obama administration has invested $70 million to develop a “stealth internet” and cell phone system that will help dissidents in autocratic countries get around censorship and undermine dictatorships, the New York Times first learned from classified diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks. Among these high-tech “secret” weapons is the Internet in a Suitcase: “Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow