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Subject: [ISN] Consumers Boycott Nokia, Siemens for Selling to Iran
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2009-06-25 7:47:28
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0906250247190.31135 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
June 23, 2009
Consumers are calling for a boycott of telecom equipment makers Nokia
and Siemens after the Wall Street Journal reported that the companies'
joint networking firm sold sophisticated internet surveillance equipment
to Iran — a story that the company says is false.
Despite the denial, boycotters have written Nokia saying they've
destroyed their Nokia phones, and are telling friends and family to
avoid Nokia products until the company "can make the right ethical
choices."
According to the Journal, a system installed in Iran by Nokia Siemens
Networks — a Finland-based joint venture between Nokia and Seimens —
provides Iranian authorities with the ability to conduct deep-packet
inspection of online communications to monitor the contents and track
the source of e-mail, VoIP calls, and posts to social networking sites
such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. The newspaper also said
authorities had the ability to alter content as it intercepted the
traffic from a state-owned internet choke point.
A spokesman for Nokia Siemens Networks, however, said the Journal got
the story wrong, and that the system it installed in Iran late last year
is incapable of conducting deep-packet inspection of internet
communications — or conducting any internet surveillance at all. The
company said it installed a cell phone network in Iran, and like all
modern telecom switches, the equipment includes a capability that allows
the government to conduct wiretaps of telephone calls made from targeted
numbers.
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