Reassurance-Onslaught Cycle on Fast Forward

by Francisco Toro on March 15, 2010 - 9:45am

Is it just me, or is the chavista reassurance-to-onslaught-on-civil-liberties cycle getting quicker?

Barely 48 hours had passed after Franco Silva, who heads the Nationalized telecom giant, CANTV, had calmly reassured us that the company's plans to force all net traffic in Venezuela to go through CANTV by setting up a "single gateway" to the internet was in no way designed to control or censor access to digital content before President Chávez was out furiously vowing to enact new regulations to...control or censor access to digital content.

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Quico» March 15, 2010 - 9:54am

In Iran...

Here's how el compañero ahmadinejad does it...
"Crucially, all internet traffic in and out of Iran travels through one portal – the Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI) – though a few service providers operate below it. This makes it easier to monitor traffic. Sophisticated software allows officials to look at a website or tweet and see the IP address it came from. Decisions on blocking are made by a committee of government officials, members of the judiciary and intelligence services. Filtering is done by the telecommunications ministry."

Robert» March 15, 2010 - 11:43am

righto

I've always lamented that taking over CANTV was for this ultimate purpose, besides eavesdropping..........so sad

Kepler» March 15, 2010 - 11:55am

chavismo using software to discove patterns within opposition

Iran is mostly using Nokia-Siemens.

In German, a very long video from Hans where an Austrian expert explains with great detail what the Iranians and others do:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/955600/Menschen-erhielten-D...

The Venezuelan regime is apparently using mostly chinese systems
such as Hwawei and others.

They are mostly trying now to find out patterns and to do that they do not need to be very smart, just use the software package the provider gives: who is connecting to whom, who is going to a march, etc.

Still, I am not sure about how effective they can be in spying, considering chavista officials are...you know...even with an easy-to-use package.

I'm going to try to find out more about the features offered by the Asians.

Here some links in English, I haven't gone through them all, but I see they are about Nokia Siemens and Iran.

http://askville.amazon.com/Siemens-Nokia-helps-Iran-dictatorships-recent...

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Anonymous» March 15, 2010 - 12:13pm

DGI will do, unfortunately

Still, I am not sure about how effective they can be in spying, considering chavista officials are...you know...even with an easy-to-use package.

All the less than competent Chavistas have to do is to farm the work out to the Cubans. The Cubans are already involved with CANTV. DGI is competent enough to help the Castros last over 50 years, so they can do the job for the Chavistas.

Boludo Tejano

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Anonymous» March 15, 2010 - 12:41pm

Technically they will not go through CANTV servers...

...but a NAP (Network Access Point) is like a router; they can block pages totally, they can block based on trafic, they can block based on bandwidth, they can block specific days and/or hours. And the NAP will be managed by CANTV.

Juantxon

Kepler» March 15, 2010 - 12:48pm

Using mobiles to spy/influence people

"Don't go to march, we know who you are"

Or: X is contacting Y, X has Z million bolivares and has not paid XX taxes

Or: marches towards the city centre can be monitored via patterns of gsms of certain people

Those are the things that may be more annyoing. They won't block as in Asia, not yet and not in the next year.

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