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WIRED: Consumers Boycott Nokia, Siemens for Selling To Iran. ?According to the Journal, a system i?

By Glenn Reynolds

WIRED: Consumers Boycott Nokia, Siemens for Selling To Iran. “According to the Journal, a system installed in Iran by Nokia Siemens Networks ? a Finland-based joint venture between Nokia and Seimens ? provides Iranian authorities with the ability to conduct deep-packet inspection of online communications to monitor the contents and track the source of e-mail, VoIP calls, and posts to social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. The newspaper also said authorities had the ability to alter content as it intercepted the traffic from a state-owned internet choke point.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).