Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Feeds
34749 items (30236 unread) in 5 feeds
OpenSource
(5770 unread)
-
SourceForge.net: Front page news
(802 unread)
-
Slashdot: IT (4968 unread)
Security
(11374 unread)
-
Digg / Security (11374 unread)
Linux
(13092 unread)
-
-
Slashdot: Linux (1661 unread)
Slashdot: IT
-
Blue Coat Denies Its Devices Helping Syrian Gov't
Posted: October 11th, 2011, 7:18pm CEST by timothy
Tags: government
First time accepted submitter drmemnoch writes with a follow-up to a report last week that Internet proxy / filtering / logging devices made by Sunnyvale, CA based Blue Coat Systems have been used by the Syrian government to monitor and censor Syrian's Internet usage. drmemnoch notes that "Sales to restricted countries can often occur through 3rd party resellers. Blue Coat has yet to provide any information other than denial." Specifically, the company denies direct sales, but in the linked ZDnet report kept mum on how third-party resellers might be involved. I requested comment from the company about how their products might have ended up in Syria; Steve Schick of Blue Coat has responded to that request with a more detailed denial (included below) of the company's involvement, and says that there is "no firm evidence" in the logs leaked by Telecomix that Syria has any Blue Coat equipment at all; dissection of that response is invited.