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Latest Updates on Middle East Protests - NYTimes.com
On Tuesday, The Lede continues to follow protests and unrest in Bahrain, Yemen and Iran, as well as Egypt’s post-Mubarak transition. Updates below mix alerts on breaking news with reports from bloggers and journalists on the ground. A stream of Twitter updates on regional protests is in this blog’s right column.
"The government doesn't want us forming crowds through the internet," said Rachid Salem, of Co-ordination for Democratic Change in Algeria . "Security forces are armed to the teeth out on the street, and they're also doing everything to crush our uprising on the internet. Journalists, and especially those with cameras, are being taken away by the police.
Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts - Telegraph
Libye : des sites berbéristes hackés | Kabyle.com
Le site Tamazgha.fr rapporte qu'au moins deux sites Internet libyens sont inaccessibles depuis quelques jours. C’est notamment le cas du site Ussan qui communique sur la situation de la question amazighe et en particulier sur les arrestations arbitraires de militants amazighs par le régime libyens. Pour la rédaction du site berbériste ces attaques " ne peuvent être que l’œuvre du régime de Kadhafi qui a du investir dans ce domaine en payant des hackers pour attaquer les sites amazighs qui dévoilent sa politique.
Egypt protests: Police use Facebook and Twitter to track down protesters | Mail Online
Sitting on an upturned bread basket with her knees pulled up to her chest, a petite young woman looked out over Tahrir Square early yesterday morning and weighed up whether she should stay or leave. Gabrielle, 25, is a French-Egyptian property lawyer, one of the thousands of young protesters who have remained at the focal point of Egypt’s uprising since it began 13 days ago. Exhausted, she yearns to return to the comfortable home she shares with her younger sisters and anxious parents – also lawyers – in the upmarket Cairo suburb of Heliopolis ten miles away. She dreamt last night of a hot bath and fresh clothes.
Updates on Day 11 of Egypt Protests - NYTimes.com
On Friday, The Lede continues to provide updates on the street protests in Egypt. For a summary of the latest developments, read the current version of our main news article from our colleagues in Cairo. Updates below mix alerts on breaking news with reports from bloggers and journalists posted on other news sites and social networks. A stream of Twitter updates on the protests is in this blog’s right column.A California-based company helped Egypt surreptitiously inspect internet messaging by protesters since the beginning of the uprising in Cairo and other cities, according to an advocacy group. “Free Press” says the firm, located in Sunnyvale, Ca., provided Telecom Egypt with the technology enabling government security forces to “peek in” on internet traffic from browsers, emails, Twitter and Facebook posts. Network providers have used so-called “deep packet inspection” (DPI) software for years in order to examine the bits of digital information, called packets, that make up an email or other transmission, in order to find spam, computer viruses, and other malicious code on their systems. “Anything that comes through (an Internet protocol network), we can record.
Egypt's Internet Crackdown 'Had US Help' - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News
اتخاذ موضع مقتدرانه رهبر معظم انقلاب، سیاستمداران رژیم صهیونیستی را دچار وحشتی ویرانگر کرده که اینچنین به دست و پا افتادهاند؛ آنجا که فرمودند به هر تعرضی از سوی رژیمصهیونیستی، پاسخی کوبنده داده خواهد شد. یک شرکت مشاور آمریکایی در امور انرژی، انسداد تنگه هرمز از سوی ایران در واکنش به تحریمهای غرب را موجب افزایش بهای جهانی نفت به بشکهای ۲۴۰ دلار میداند. این قانون به آمریکاییها اجازه میدهد نرمافزارهای مسنجر، چت، ایمیل، شبکههای اجتماعی، سرویسهای به اشتراکگذاری عکس و فیلم و همچنین سرویسهای وبلاگنویسی در اختیار ایرانیان بگذارند.
گرداب | Gerdab.ir
Farhad Manjoo wrote an article in Slate : The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized: How the Internet helps Iran silence activists . Consider this: According to the Wall Street Journal , Iran has one of the world’s most advanced surveillance networks. Using a system installed last year (and built, in part, by Nokia and Siemens), the government routes all digital traffic in the country through a single choke point. Through “ deep packet inspection ,” the regime achieves omniscience — it has the technical capability to monitor every e-mail, tweet, blog post, and possibly even every phone call placed in Iran.
Digital revolutionaries: What’s your Plan B? | Facilitating Change
Regions: Iran December 7 was Student Day in Iran, a day when students traditionally commemorate the deaths of three Iranian students who were protesting the Shah in 1953. This year, the Student Day protests were especially poignant because they demonstrated that Iran's Green Movement is still very much alive. And, like the post-election protests in June , news about the demonstrations was delivered to the world via tools like Twitter and YouTube . Online news organizations like Tehran Bureau and Enduring America , supported by a number of bloggers, such as the New York Times' Lede Blog and Citizentube , highlighted videos of the Student Day protests like those seen below in order to get the word out:
Digital Media and Iran's Green Movement: A Look Back with Cameran Ashraf | The Hub