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Packets, Please: Government monitoring and #IranElection
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 16:30 — Jon
Wired reminds us that we can rail against and complain about the intrusive, privacy-destroying and free-speech-threatening monitoring that Iran has been employing against the protestors over the past few months, but we have to remember two things. First, US and European companies provided the hardware and software to Iran for them to do this. Second - our own government does the same thing, and we should stop it.
Regarding the first problem, bipartisan Senators are proposing a ban on government contracts to companies caught selling such technology to Iran, and it's technically illegal for US companies anyhow (which might not be stopping everyone, and appears to be using Secure Computing's (now McAfee) SmartFilter according to the Open Net Initiative's testing.
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Academic view on secure communication in repressive regimes
Mon, 06/15/2009 - 14:54 — Jon
iRevolution has a good, academic-style breakdown of challenges and communication technologies for use to communicate securely within repressive regimes:
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/digital-security/
It covers a lot of ground, balancing ease of use against level of security, and is looking for input!
ICT and the Iran Election
Sun, 06/14/2009 - 10:01 — Jon
The Daily Dish reposts a call to action from Twitter: ALL internet & mobile networks are cut. We ask everyone in Tehran to go onto their rooftops and shout ALAHO AKBAR in protest #IranElection, and comments:
That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so swiftly is a sign of the times. It reveals in Iran what the Obama campaign revealed in the United States. You cannot stop people any longer. You cannot control them any longer. They can bypass your established media; they can broadcast to one another; they can organize as never before.
Other coverage at Global Voices and Daily Kos present videos and links to photos of protests coming from Tehran.
