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US engineers are building a stealth internet network that could be smuggled into countries such as Syria and Iran to allow dissidents to communicate without government interference.
A prototype of the device disguised as a suitcase has been designed in Washington as part of a $US70 million ($66m) State Department program dedicated to communications systems that could be installed without the knowledge of hostile regimes.
US officials are believed to have installed an independent mobile telecommunications network in Afghanistan. Mobile phones are relatively common in the country, but Taliban commanders regularly shut down the towers that carry phone and internet signals.
Four young State Department contractors, some with experience as computer hackers, have developed the internet suitcase.
Sascha Meinrath, the leader of the Open Technology Initiative, told The New York Times: "We're going to build a separate infrastructure where the technology is nearly impossible to shut down; to control; to surveil."
The system connects mobile phones or computers to a wireless web that does not need a central, detectable hub.
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