Syria appears to be using American-made devices to block citizens' access to Internet, hackers say.
The United States imposed sanctions against Syria back in 2004 which prohibit the export of products from the U.S. to the country, except in cases of food or medicine. For that reason, the U.S. State Department is looking into claims made by hackers that Syria's Internet censorship relies ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by KillerBug: That is american censorship equipment, made for censoring americans...how dare they use it to censor people elsewhere?
It's not made "for censoring Americans", it is used by the likes of Fortune 500 companies or otherwise large entities that want to limit the web access inside their organizations, and not just to limit what workers can do online during the day, but also to limit the attack possibilities against the organizations too, since if only "approved" web sources can be accessed from within the organization, it eliminates much of the risk of employees being targeted with malicious links etc.
The issue for the state department here is whether or not a U.S. trader sold the equipment to Syria.
