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Iran Launches Cyber-Police Units
Khopesh writes "Iran is implementing a cyber police force to combat social networks and similar sources of 'espionage and riots.' This will likely result in more control over internet access than efforts that might hinder attacks like Stuxnet. 'Ahmadi Moghaddam said that Iran's cyber police will take on the "anti-revolutionary" dissident groups that used online social networks to organize protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following disputed elections held in 2009. "Through these very social networks in our country, anti-revolutionary groups and dissidents found each other and contacted foreign countries and triggered riots," said Ahmadi Moghaddam, referring to the protests that took place at the time.'"
Yo have been reported, and backtraced.
anti-revolutionary
Heh. They don't seem to want to admit that they are the status quo now.
Those seeking to over throw them would be the revolutionary ones.
Iran has learned from Soviet mistakes - you do need computer weapon to catch moose and squirrel.
The consequences will NEVER BE THE SAME!
Don't forget to do it without judicial oversight, to infiltrate protest groups and cyber with legitimate members, and to incite violence. It's OK because when you're working for the government you are in the right by definition, right?
We all know in our western democratic society such thing as cyber police is unthinkable! (Rolls eyes)
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I can only hope that any lying no-good punks will be reported to this new group when Iranian citizens backtrace anyone who done goofed
Are they hiring?
=)
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
So basically they're trying to stop "anti-revolutionary groups" from causing riots and revolutions?
(Yes, I know what they really mean by "anti-revolutionary").
It is the universe that makes fun of us all.
...will never be the same.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Updates from Tor blog:
blog.torproject.org/blog/update-internet-censorship-iran
Does that also mean they get to have sex with the activists? Kewl!
Well, it's not like they're infiltrating a pornstar training school or something.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
The Russians carried on using "counter-revolutionary" as an insult well past the time when the 1917 Revolution led to the Communists being in power.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
So what happens when the cyber police force gets influenced by these evil social networks? Will there be a cyber police police?
So what you're saying is that Iran has called the cyber police, those cyber police can backtrace you, and the consequences will never be the same?
The Russians carried on using "counter-revolutionary" as an insult well past the time when the 1917 Revolution led to the Communists being in power.
The Soviets used "counter-revolutionary" as a charge that could get you sent to the Gulag or worse.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
If i want to send out a message to those who know what to look for in advance, then it will be easy...i can post on a website, like any website, that has blog or forum capability, and let them read what i am saying and insert an encoded message there...simple, and no need of facebook or else, this is just a means to come around and control more of what is accessible on the web because they do not like that people can blast their gov. or what not.
if you don't know what exactly is illegal in iran versus western democracies, and you don't know what the punishments are in iran versus western democracies, you are an idiot. but idiots like you dependably crop up in any story critical of north korea or china or iran: "it's the same here in usa/ europe/ australia"
actually, no, moron, it clearly is NOT the same, by very very wide margins of what is illegal and what the punishments are. to announce north korea, iran, or china equivalent to what you are allowed to do and how you might be punished in western democracies is simply to loudly proclaim that you are a very ignorant person
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The people of Iran made a mistake this time. They attempted a revolution. You either do, or don't do. There is no try. That's the lesson to be learned here.
Every successful revolution involves giving it your 110% effort all the way through.
Life is not for the lazy.
These things just go on and on.
...used "terrorist" as a charge that could get you sent to the Gitmo or worse.
These things just go on and on.
There are some distinct differences.
Making a joke about Stalin could get you sent to the Gulag, or just a quota due to a shortage of prisoners being used for forced labor at an important state project. Apparently more than 18,000,000 people passed through the Gulag system from Lenin's time.
It is nearing 10 years now, and less than 1,000 people have been sent to Guantanamo, and it is emptying. Making jokes about George Bush is practically a national pastime, but people don't go to jail over it. The vast majority of Guantanamo's prisoners were either captured on the battlefield or in hiding, overseas. They either were active participants in making war against the United States, or suspected of active participation or direct support.
There really isn't any meaningful comparison.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
link shows Daniel Keys Moran, I thought you meant Dropkick Murphys for a minute.
Proud working-class punks there to be sure, but no specifically anti-police song of theirs comes to mind.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.