http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/nokia-siemens-boycott/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com June 23, 2009 Consumers are calling for a boycott of telecom equipment makers Nokia and Siemens after the Wall Street Journal reported that the companies’ joint networking firm sold sophisticated internet surveillance equipment to Iran — a story that the company says is false. Despite the denial, boycotters have written Nokia saying they’ve destroyed their Nokia phones, and are telling friends and family to avoid Nokia products until the company “can make the right ethical choices.” According to the Journal, a system installed in Iran by Nokia Siemens Networks — a Finland-based joint venture between Nokia and Seimens — provides Iranian authorities with the ability to conduct deep-packet inspection of online communications to monitor the contents and track the source of e-mail, VoIP calls, and posts to social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. The newspaper also said authorities had the ability to alter content as it intercepted the traffic from a state-owned internet choke point. A spokesman for Nokia Siemens Networks, however, said the Journal got the story wrong, and that the system it installed in Iran late last year is incapable of conducting deep-packet inspection of internet communications — or conducting any internet surveillance at all. The company said it installed a cell phone network in Iran, and like all modern telecom switches, the equipment includes a capability that allows the government to conduct wiretaps of telephone calls made from targeted numbers. [...] _____________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News security bookstore! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Thu Jun 25 2009 - 00:47:28 PDT
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