I know it is hard to admit but just about any government in the world is spying on its citizens. Sure, we have a false sense of security that we are “protected” and such a thing would never happen but it has become very clear that it seems to be a common thing these days.
Technology is helping drive the events in Iran right now. People are using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites in order to send messages, inform others about events, and help organize protests, all the while mobile phones show the rest of the world video of what is happening on the streets of Tehran as people send video in near real time to YouTube.
Just as the protesters are using technology, so is the Iranian government.
But Nokia Siemens says the product is only being used, in Iran, for the monitoring of local telephone calls on fixed and mobile lines.
Rather than just block traffic, it is understood that the monitoring system can also interrogate data to see what information is being passed back and forth.
A spokesman described the system as “a standard architecture that the world’s governments use for lawful intercept”.
Oh, yea, to pop your security bubble:
“Western governments, including the UK, don’t allow you to build networks without having this functionality.”
So much for freedom of speech.
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