{"id":1372,"date":"2011-11-11T07:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T07:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/11\/researchers-spot-blue-coat-web-control-gear-in\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:03","slug":"researchers-spot-blue-coat-web-control-gear-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/11\/researchers-spot-blue-coat-web-control-gear-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Spot Blue Coat Web Control Gear In Another Repressive Regime: Burma – Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it<\/a> – Rights & Liberties<\/a>

Since Web filtering and network monitoring gear from Blue Coat Systems turned up in Syria last month, the company has been scrambling to avoid a reputation as an Internet arms provider to the world’s most repressive dictatorships.
Via www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties Since Web filtering and network monitoring gear from Blue Coat Systems turned up in Syria last month, the company has been scrambling to avoid a reputation as an Internet arms provider to the world’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1369,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/13\/governments-turn-to-hacking-techniques-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":1372,"position":0},"title":"Governments turn to hacking techniques for surveillance of citizens","author":"aslam","date":"November 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Surveillance firms that recently attended a US conference are accused of offering their services to repressive regimes.Via www.guardian.co.uk","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1565,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/08\/protecting-protestors-with-photos-that-never\/","url_meta":{"origin":1372,"position":1},"title":"Protecting protestors with photos that never existed – life – 07 July 2011 – New Scientist","author":"aslam","date":"July 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAN IMAGE processing system that obscures the position from which photographs are taken could help protestors in repressive regimes escape arrest - and give journalists \u201cplausible deniability\u201d over the provenance of leaked photos.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1200,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/30\/tyrants-and-technology-how-western-mercantilism\/","url_meta":{"origin":1372,"position":2},"title":"Tyrants and Technology: How Western Mercantilism Leads to Censorship and Disappearances – Forbes","author":"aslam","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesIn the last two decades, leading information, communications, and technology (ICT) companies\u00a0have sold goods and services to repressive governments, enabling them\u00a0to dramatically improve their surveillance and intelligence capabilities as well as control the flow of information from the outside world.Via forbes.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1398,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/10\/29\/syria-uses-gear-from-us-firm-to-block-web\/","url_meta":{"origin":1372,"position":3},"title":"Syria Uses Gear From U.S. Firm to Block Web","author":"aslam","date":"October 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties The U.S. company told the Journal that Syria has been using at least 13 of its devices to censor web activity\u2014an admission that comes amid new reports of Arab Spring bloodshed there. 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