Internet ajuda a silenciar ativistas iranianos :-/
Monitorar a comunicação na Internet é muito mais fácil, alerta Hugh Pickens.
Além de monitorar as conexões domiciliares, um sistema construído por Siemens e Nokia está analisando todo o tráfego mobile do Iran, ajudando a monitorar e identificar rebeldes.
'Who said that only the good guys get to use the power of the Web to their advantage?
Quem disse que apenas os caras legais usam o poder da Web em seu benefício?
The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
The Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes, according to these experts.
The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of SiemensAG, the German conglomerate, and NokiaCorp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.
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