The internet activists have Telecomix at a meeting of Arab bloggers in
Tunisia published 54 GB of log files Syrian Internet censors, the period
from 22 July to 5 August 2011 cover. The copy of this data was made
possible by a vulnerability in the filter systems used in Syria from the
American company Blue Coat Systems. In the publication of Telecomix the
recorded IP addresses have been anonymized to 0.0.0.0, which critics
maintain the action was insufficient.
After Syria has shut down in June this year, its internet connections,
the land targeted by the tele-Comix has become activists, who in
association with the troupe Anonymous hacktivists-proclaimed "Operation
Syria". So in September, the Syrian cities of websites have been hacked.
Previously, it was revealed that Syria is on the Web filtering company
Blue Coat Systems, which, however, denied any relationship to Syria. The
now-publication of the log files to show how the regime controls the
communications of its citizens. Statistical analysis will be found the
key words in the data clusters, which alerted the watchmen. "Proxy" and
"Israel" are, according to Telecomix been discovered.
The publication of the data was welcomed to the blogger meeting, but
also criticized. In the view of network specialists such as the
gate-programmers Jacob Applebaum, the logs could apart from the "zeroed"
IP addresses include the names, jeopardize the privacy of the Syrian
network users.
Internet monitoring in Syria is not an isolated case. Already in March
2011 it was announced that in Egypt the software Finfisher the Munich
company Gamma was used. The delivery of the software was to Egyptian
authorities were Great Britain, but said an employee of the company
compared to the MDR-magazine "Fact":. "Finfisher is 100 percent German,
developed ie in Germany is, however, I can tell you right out England
delivered. But that is only because our office does not have the storage
room. This is but one hundred percent developed in Germany. " Also in
Libya, Gaddafi's regime was set up by software, and indeed that was
developed in France by the bull-daughter Amesys Eagle and the South
African system of monitoring of VAS Zebra-Tech that has grown up with
orders from Siemens.
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