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Gang supplying mobile phone SIM cards to Maoists busted in UP

Lucknow, May 9 — A major gang providing pre-activated SIM cards to Maoists in other states has been busted by the Lucknow police crime branch, police said Wednesday.

Two people were arrested late Tuesday in the operation. Thirty-seven BSNL SIM cards, 82 CAFs (Customer Authentication Forms), 82 identity proofs and 80 passport-size photographs were recovered [...]

CSTO wants to monitor the internet to prevent a repeat of Arab revolutions

Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) announced that it will start controlling social networks to avoid a repeat of mass riots like in Tunisia and Egypt.

Sources in the organization, which includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, say that “there is no talk about censorship or about fighting dissidence,” Izvestia reported on Tuesday.

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No plan yet to regulate BlackBerry — Radebe

CAPE TOWN — There is no plan yet for regulations or legislation regarding BlackBerry’s encrypted messenger service (BBM), as the government’s cyber policy was still being devised, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said yesterday.

This comes amid growing concern over the use of BBM in civil unrest, particularly in last week’s African National Congress Youth League [...]

Facebook riot invitation lands Bangor man, 21, in jail

A 21-year-old man has been jailed for four months after posting an invitation to start a riot which appeared on Facebook for 20 minutes.

David Glyn Jones, of Bangor, Gwynedd, told friends: “Let’s start Bangor riots”, Caernarfon magistrates heard.

The court heard an ex-colleague saw the post and alerted the police.

Jones, who admitted an [...]

Torture in Bahrain Aided by Nokia Siemens

The interrogation of Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar followed a pattern.

First, Bahraini jailers armed with stiff rubber hoses beat the 39-year-old school administrator and human rights activist in a windowless room two stories below ground in the Persian Gulf kingdom’s National Security Apparatus building. Then, they dragged him upstairs for questioning by a uniformed officer [...]

UK summons social network bosses over the riots

Major social media network bosses including Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry have been called by a top British Parliamentary body headed by British MP Kieth Vaz to appear before it over the role played by the social networks during the recent riots in England.

Chairman Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons Kieth Vaz was [...]

Scotland Yard Read Encrypted BlackBerry Messages During Riots

British police officials said they used confiscated BlackBerry smartphones to “break into” encrypted communications.

What’s the easiest way to access an encrypted smartphone communications network? Have a smartphone that can listen in.

At least, that was one tactic employed by police in London as they sought better intelligence on the outbreak of riots across England. [...]

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