Source: Ryan Gallagher, Slate
Keeping track of the avalanche of reports about new mass surveillance initiatives and Internet freedom crackdowns can be a difficult task. But soon there could be a solution to the problem: a global monitoring system that will help chart digital repression by mapping the Internet’s “cyber geography” in near real time.
Tag Archives: Monitoring
EU plans groundbreaking project to monitor Internet censorship around the world
November 6, 2012 – 8:38 am
International calls, internet communication to be monitored in Pakistan
October 5, 2012 – 4:43 pm
Source: Shahid Abbasi, The News Tribe
Pakistan’s government has decided to establish a monitoring system of international incoming and outgoing calls along with voice and text communication of internet through International Clearing House (IHC).
Network surveillance devices discovered via Shodan
September 21, 2012 – 9:53 am
Source: Shawn Merdinger, Infosec Island
It’s no secret that Shodan has turned up some interesting findings over the past few years – everything from critical infrastructure devices, to VoIP phones, solar and wind farms, HVAC systems, even a online crematorium.
How governments and telecom companies work together on surveillance laws
August 14, 2012 – 5:10 am
Source: Slate
Over the past few months, authorities in these countries have separately been arguing the case for expanded power to monitor Internet communications.
Targeted attacks in Syria
May 3, 2012 – 2:51 pm
Source: F-Secure
Syria has been the center of much international attention lately.
White House, NSA weigh cybersecurity, personal privacy
February 27, 2012 – 10:42 am
Source: Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post
The National Security Agency has pushed repeatedly over the past year to expand its role in protecting private-sector computer networks from cyberattacks but has been rebuffed by the White House, largely because of privacy concerns, according to administration officials and internal documents.
India sets up telephone call intercept capabilities
February 22, 2012 – 1:46 pm
Source: Sandeep Joshi, The Hindu
Currently, trials are on in Delhi and Haryana through a main server established in the national capital.
UK MPs urge ISPs to “be more active in monitoring”
February 6, 2012 – 4:00 pm
Source: UK Parliamentary News
The Home Affairs Committee publishes its report into The Roots of Violent Radicalisation today, the result of a wide-ranging inquiry that began in May 2011.
Israeli company sold surveillance equipment to Iran
December 23, 2011 – 3:01 pm
Source: Haaretz
An Israeli company has been selling Iran Internet-monitoring equipment through a distributor in Denmark, Bloomberg news agency reported on Friday.
When secrets aren’t safe with journalists
October 26, 2011 – 10:19 am
Source: Christopher Soghoian, The New York Times
Brave journalists have defied court orders and have even been jailed rather than compromise their ethical duty to protect sources. But as governments increasingly record their citizens’ every communication — even wiretapping journalists and searching their computers — the safety of anonymous sources will depend not only on journalists’ ethics, but on their computer skills.
