[liberationtech] Narus- american company helped Egyptian goevernment to spy on its citizens?

Rebecca MacKinnon rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 14:26:08 PST 2011


This is a few years old but it gives an overview of some of the regimes that were using SmartFilter by 2006

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1307/1227



On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:14 PM, ilf wrote:

> On 02-10 11:12, Jillian C. York wrote:
>> Let's not forget that SmartFilter was used in Tunisia for filtering as well (and probably still will be; a new document from the interim government suggests that filtering to some degree will be written into law):
>> http://opennet.net/research/profiles/tunisia
> 
> Very interesting.
> 
>> SmartFilter (owned by McAfee, which is owned by Intel) is also used in most of the Gulf countries.
> 
> Do you have further information on that, preferrably published?
> 
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