Anonymous Iran

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I don't get it.. Why people here get so worked out about Nokia-Siemens and not about other companies active in Iran? It shows sheer stupidity of posters here when they neglect to acknowledge the fact that western companies have been trading and supporting Iran for years. If NS hadn't sold that system to Iran someone certainly would have sold similiar system also you don't need very advanced system to track down people.. Simple GSM technologies that have been around since early 90s are sufficient. Police and other authorities can use them to track down people based on their location if ppl keep their phones open.

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Let me put it this way. A german company selling software which could be used to oppress people, to a country whose leader openly states that he is going to destroy Israel and wants to drive the jews into the ocean leaves a very bitter aftertaste.
where are the people taken who has been arrested thanks to intercepted sms/phonecalls?
I think u get what im hintig at.

greetings from germany

darezy

I just posted this to facebook. As a businessman in the mobile industry + a background of Iranian Im disappointing. Lucky Im much closer to Ericsson businesswise. From now on I will have another view on the cheap NOKIA.

Fancy

For Money most corporations will sell their soul.

It is why i am for a different way of doing things. A different economy.

Sadly I read Nokia press release about this and I don't have a link to it but was posted as a response to a blog about this issue. They say all systems has this feature but they may be doing standard PR on this issue.

I am not doing anything with Nokia and will tell others as well.

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All the more reason to support Tor any way you can.

cfelectro

so happy i went iphone over the nokia n97

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Reporters Without Borders reports that Iran has become the world's largest prison of journalists and bloggers. 33 are in govt. custody, and 23 or 24 arrested since the protests began.

Reporters Sans Frontières

At least 24 reporters arrested in Iran - Boston.com

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Nokia makes shit phones anyway!

DEATH TO NOKIA! Or at least the company and its marketing staff.

AghajanForIran

It sickens me that western companies support this kind of activity. I still have a bad feeling about Yahoo because they were so willing to sell out Chinese dissidents on order to get on the good side of the Chinese government.

I want to point out though, the same economic engagement by european countries that made this deal possible also makes it very difficult for Iran to just cut off the Internet and telecommunications all together. If they did, their economy would quickly collapse which would make things even harder for the regime. As it is now, people are still finding ways around this. I hope that the protestors can break the regime before the regime has a chance to really analyze all the data they've gathered.

Of course, the flip side is that embargoes mean that companies can avoid temptation. Its great that Google and Facebook rushed out better support for Farsi, but it was easier for them, because they didn't have to worry about their actions threatening any business deals. They didn't have any.

For now though, I've set up a TOR node to try and do my part to help. And Nokia and Siemens can rot.

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Wear a green wrist band or anything green...Thanks !