Boing Boing » censorware http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:54:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Grants for anti-censorship tools http://boingboing.net/2013/02/14/grants-for-anti-censorship-too.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/14/grants-for-anti-censorship-too.html#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:11:21 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=213113 Sandra sez, "OpenITP's first round of 2013 project funding is now open for proposals! Project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on the Internet.]]> Sandra sez, "OpenITP's first round of 2013 project funding is now open for proposals! Project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on the Internet. 'Technical' doesn't have to mean software or hardware. For example, they also consider efforts to improve user experience through translation, testing, projects to improve documentation, meetings that get developers together in person to solve specific problems, etc." ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/14/grants-for-anti-censorship-too.html/feed 0 Danish company helped Iran with surveillance program that identified journalist who was arrested and tortured http://boingboing.net/2011/12/30/danish-company-helped-iran-ide.html http://boingboing.net/2011/12/30/danish-company-helped-iran-ide.html#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:06:16 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=136468 RanTek, a Danish company, is reportedly supplying Iran with censor/spyware technology, which was part of a larger effort that was used to identify a dissident journalist who was arrested and tortured.

Until he was arrested, he worked for Mehr, the official Iranian news agency. He received information from all over the country about protests and demonstrations, information too controversial to be used in the news agent's official work. Instead he published it through other channels, e.g. Facebook. However, after the elections in June 2009, when people took to the streets in protest against Ahmadinejad's election victory, it was clear to the Iranians that the Internet is in no way safe.

Nearly 4000 people were arrested solely on the basis of monitoring of their private internet traffic«, says Farahani.

Now it seems that the Danish company RanTek helps the Iranian regime with the monitoring of the Iranian population. The day before Christmas the Bloomberg news agency reported that the Danish IT company re-packages and sells surveillance equipment to Iran. Ironically, the equipment originally comes from the Israeli manufacturer Allot Communications, which means that the Israelis through a Danish intermediary have helped their mortal enemies.

Eksperter: Dansk firma hjælper med iransk overvågning (Danish)

Danish company helps Iran spy on citizens (English)

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