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Occupy Wall Street: Misreading Lessons from Tahrir
This weekend, over a thousand protesters marched on Wall Street, with a couple hundred continuing into the night occupying Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan. Echoed with enthusiastic, revolutionary...
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BlueCoat and Syria: Indicators and Culpability.
On October 5, the technology collective Telecomix released a set of logs that documents the web traffic of users of Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (Syria Telecom). The logs had been deposited...
View ArticleThis is Definitely Not A BlueCoat Device In Syria.
RE: BlueCoat Refutal of BlueCoat Devices in Syria, BlueCoat and Syria: Indicators and Culpability (me) Mr. Steve Schick, The device attached to 77.44.210.15 is not a BlueCoat SG-400 Appliance. Not a...
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Syria, eGovernance, Sanctions and an American Connection
As Turkey follows the Arab League, Europe and the United States in sanctions against the Syrian economy, the intention is to stifle the ability of companies and government bureaucracy to carry out...
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Tracing Incitement or Signaling through Terminology
Elsewhere, a comment had been made on on the terminology used by diplomats for the Persian Gulf as incitement or signaling to Iran. As a hypothesis, this is both novel and easily testable. There are...
View ArticleThe Need for Community Participation and Clear Disclosure Processes in the...
Having been a party to the disclosure process, there were a number of occasions where communications broke down due to differences of definitions and intent. I had offered to review any draft of...
View ArticleSplunk IPO Statement on Export Regulations Compliance
From Page 18 of Splunk Inc.’s SEC Form S-1, dated 12 January 2012. We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could subject us to liability or impair our ability to compete in...
View ArticleAn Eventful Few Weeks in Iran: DNS Tampering, Content-Type Filtering and SSL...
As is the historical trend, an eventful month of political and economic instability, not the least reflected in the return of Mehdi Hashemi, the dive of the Toman, Ahmadinejad at the U.N. General...
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Another Blue Coat Device in Iran (Respina, Infotech International)
In “Some Devices Wander by Mistake: Planet Blue Coat Redux,” Citizen Lab located nearly a dozen footprints for Blue Coat proxy devices located on Iranian networks. Blue Coat Systems’ response and...
View ArticleHayden on the Conflict Between Online Freedom and Security
“We need to pull the rest of American thinking into this in a relevant way. Secretary Clinton gave two speeches on cyber stuff while she was secretary. And if you’re you know you think of the world...
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