Scoop BlogWatch: Technology failed Iran

Monday, 8 March 2010, 4:07 pm
Opinion: Scoop Blogwatch

Scoop BlogWatch: Technology failed Iran

Iran's mobile network double-crossed its users in last year's suppressed revolt. We got our hands on one of the surveillance systems that Nokia Siemens Networks sold to Iran. What's the connection to Europe's own gadgets?

"Collecting interception data is a process which takes place in the 'background', assuring that the intercepted target (end user) is never aware of a possible interception," the manual describes. "The maximum number of simultaneous active interception sessions is 50,000."

This manual has been read by police officers in Tehran. It ended up in my hands through the back door.

"Nokia Lawful Interception Gateway", reads the cover page. This has been rumoured for a long while. Nokia Siemens Networks has supplied Iran with telesurveillance equipment, the details of which I have tried to track down since last summer. Now, one of the products that NSN supplied to Iran has been leaked to Fifi. This system enables just the type of surveillance that NSN has denied participating in.

It looks bad. The package gives users extensive power to monitor citizen mobile phone as well as mobile internet usage.

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See the full blog post at: http://fifi.voima.fi/artikkeli/Technology-failed-Iran/3407?page=all

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