back to article Leaked Syrian log files reveal attempts to starve rebels of information

Syria's Bashar al Assad-led regime blocked scores of legitimate services and entire network regions in its bid to scrub out access to sites such as Reddit, Google and Skype, the first analysis of the nation's web filtering reveals. Research by three Sydney researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA), together with three …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Not blocking xvideos.com?

    The Syrian regime isn't all bad, then - they're still letting the rebels get some porn to take their minds off the barrel bombs.

    1. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge

      Re: Not blocking xvideos.com?

      They also seem to have blocked access to Zynga. So as you say, they must still have a remaining spark of humanity in their black hearts...

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Not blocking xvideos.com?

        They just lack a bit of political spin. All they needed to do was set up an Internet Watch Foundation and claim they were blocking things to "protect the children" and stop "terrorism" and they'd be good.

        They could then try and push for a default filter to "protect" the entire population.

        Oh well, fortunately we in the civilised world would never do anything like that.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    DGSE

    I met "telecomix" with their pythonesque outrageous French accent; based on the fact that their website in 2011 contained so many "free-Syria" this that & the other, but a measurable ZERO "free-Bahrain" content (which was under a similar human-rights cloud at the time), I discussed this with them , they had no answer to this question, I concluded - rightly or wrongly - that they had an obvious agency bias, (not all French as they had some working Swedish phone numbers) I guess the agencies work well together on these spontaneous 'projects' (which do seem to be covertly planned a couple or three years in advance)

    I have no complaint really as I have also got friends who worked in Syria *and were terrified* of life there, life was scary, evil regime; but that doesn't discount the fact that 'the agencies' are playing/playing with us, they might even have made all the 'logs' up, but probably not - however where are the "chain of custody" forensics(*) for the data-handling since acquisition?

    (*)Documentation should include the conditions under which the evidence is gathered, the identity of all evidence handlers, duration of evidence custody, security conditions while handling or storing the evidence, and the manner in which evidence is transferred to subsequent custodians each time such a transfer occurs (along with the signatures of persons involved at each step).

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