[liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

[KheOps]

Hey, I'm thinking something that could be a total nonsense, but just in
case I would like to share my thougths.

Le 01/12/2012 19:39, Rafal Rohozinski a écrit :
> This pic has just been posted on twitter.  It was picked up by the
> Secdev Syria Operation Group. It is allegeldy a picture of internet
> censorship hardware taken inside a telecom hub (exchange) in
> Damascus, http://twitter.com/AmaraaBaghdad/status/274919986399703040/photo/1

This picture just popped up on Twitter. A long time ago there was a
picture taken from the official Tarassul Facebook pages that obviously
show the same devices in the same office -
https://resources.telecomix.ceops.eu/material/bluecoat-Syria/tarassul-datacenter.jpg

What if that second picture - the one that popped up today - had been
taken just recently by some opponent to the regime who managed to gain
access to the Tarassul technical office; that intrusion could have lead
the regime to do a kind of massive shutdown?

As I said, this might make no sense at all. But in a way, such a total
disruption, including the governmental/stock exchange/whatever websites
could be something the regime itself did not really want.