[x-pubpol] Iran preps Internet cutoff

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/09/iran_close_to_internet_blackout/



Will go dark by August

By Richard Chirgwin<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2012/04/09/iran_close_to_internet_blackout/>


 9th April 2012 23:45 GMT <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/09/>

Iran has moved to protect its citizens’ privacy against American
Imperialist Data Harvesters*; unfortunately for Iranians, the plan involves
taking the whole country off the Internet.

*International Business Times* is
reporting<http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/325415/20120409/iran-internet-intranet-censorhip-freedom-tehran-google.htm>
that
the country’s plan to set up a national intranet – its notorious “clean
Internet” – will be complete by August. This will block US-hosted services
like Google and Hotmail, replacing them with an Iran-only search engine and
mail service, for which users will have to seek government registration and
approval to use.

In a statement from the country’s ICT minister Reza Taghipour reported by
the *IBT*, the minister says that by August, “all Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) should only present the national Internet”.

The plan extends the country’s current white-list for international sites.
In February, Iran moved to stop its citizens using VPN technologies to
circumvent the white-list, blocking all SSL and TLS traffic,
according<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/10/iran_blocks_ssl_tor/>
to
the Tor project’s Joseph Applebaum.

A variety of vendors – including Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks and ZTE –
have been accused of helping Iran’s regime censor and snoop on Internet
traffic in that country. ®

**Bootnote:* I've made the mistake in the past of not being explicit about
this: yes, that first paragraph was meant to be irony.

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