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Nokia and Siemens are suffering because of policies

Another scandal bloated journalists The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), has led to the Americans and supporters began to boycott the products of the companies Nokia and Siemens for political reasons, reports Wired.

In the recently published article WSJ says that the technology provided by the joint company Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), helping the Iranian authorities to spy on its citizens on the Internet. The authors refer to a representative of Rum Ben (Ben Roome), who confirmed that the Iranian Telecom has received from them in 2008, “Center for Monitoring”.

Next, the authors argue, that after the events related to the presidential elections in the country, local Internet users began to experience serious difficulties with communication. Connection speed has dropped at least an order of magnitude.

WSJ binds a sharp decrease in traffic with a thorough verification of its contents, which allegedly carried out in a narrow point “networks. If we try to convey briefly the principle of operation of the tracking system, as the authors understand it, then it will look like this: package “dekonstruiruyutsya”, then any way examined, “the message for the message, for re-entry into them” key words – is likely to automatically – and then “constructed” back.

Of course, the realization that the western company has provided technology for the totalitarian regime of surveillance of citizens, when all of progressive humanity in the face of Google, Facebook, and even the pirates had made a lot of effort to facilitate internetoshataniya охочим Iranians to democracy, can not fail to unsettle journalists WSJ. And as it turned out, readers of this publication, too, writes Vebplaneta.

Some of them – at least in the comments to the published in the official blog Nokia Siemens Networks response to the ” recent press reports “- began to call for a boycott of Nokia products and Siemens. And this despite the fact that the NSN is a separate company, it is conventionally associated with the famous Finnish and German companies.

Moreover, these commentators apparently do not even have a labor to read formal response NSN, which is that “Nokia Siemens Networks has provided Iran an opportunity to exclusively lawful interception of local telephone calls and did not provide any opportunities for deep analysis packages, web censor or filter the Internet”.

surveillance of voice communications, a “makeweight” to the actual voice communications, legalized in many civilized countries, since in theory is designed to combat crime. Moreover, as the WSJ says reporters unappreciated Ben Rum, the availability of lawful interception is a standard requirement for telecommunications networks in most countries.

Let us recall that some months ago the most zealous defenders of democracy have already boycotted product Sony Ericsson (as well as at the same time companies Sony and Ericsson) with regard to the fact that a number of models of mobile phones sold in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa), began to broadcast news from RSS-feeds “Al Jazeera” . If it goes further, these principled citizens soon, it seems, will have to do something like go without mobile communications.