Egypt might be a good marker for popular uprisings that challenge large existing power structures. I noticed the pamphlets that got leaked by The Atlantic [1] contained street-tactics very similar to the typical G20 blackbloc stuff. The tactic of torching police stations/equipment has Greece written all over it [1.2]. Also, the use of Social Networks to mobilize people on the ground. We are beginning to see our communities endlessly-critiqued tactics being adopted and paying-off.

Then there was the straight up shutdown of the countries routers, by removing them from the global BGP network [2]. This was pretty much the worst-case scenario for Tor. Yet ironically, the government could not shutdown the NOOR route, which hosted the countries Stock Exchange and some Banks. Capitalism ended up being their weakness. Now Tor is routing through NOOR, and Tor traffic has skyrocketed [3].

As shit spirals out of control, Al Jazeer gets props for still recording on the ground, even after their offices got raided by police shooting live ammo [4]. Real journalism bro, taking it back to the streets,
literally.

Not sure how things will turn out, one things for certain it wont be easy. US politicians aint doing shit, since they aide the Egyptian Government; a form of bribery to stay out of Middle Eastern politics. Well to be fair, US politicians are making fools of themselves, by calling on a military dictator to respect civil rights, and talking about how violence will not solve anything (lol wat?). Once again, political gestures are meaningless, it's all about people power on the ground and tactics.

However, I think it's telling that most of the police equipment being used against protests was made in the USA [5]. Also, their internet was apparently being monitored/filtered thanks to software/hardware from Narus [6].