According to an article in the New York Times, The Obama administration is spearheading a global effort to deploy new Internet and mobile systems that will aid government dissidents in their fight to be free. The state department has already set aside a $2 million grant for the high-tech, James Bond-like "Internet in a suitcase". In simple terms, and to be honest, that is all I know when it comes to high-tech espionage stuff, dissidents or dissident helpers will be able to carry all the hardware they need in a suitcase across international borders and set up their own Internet access free of censorship.
This is not the first stealth project the US government has taken on hoping to help revolutionaries. The state department is also financing the creation of secret wireless networks that would enable wannabe government ousters in countries such as Iran and Libya, to communicate with each other without worrying that their government is listening in. (...)
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