technocratic social control

70 and counting: Why are Naxals bombing mobile towers?

In the past one-and-a-half years, Naxals have destroyed nearly 250 mobile towers across the country. The incidents have occurred in Bihar, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. But there seems to be a method to the madness. Vicky Nanjappa reports.

Mobile towers are probably one of the most used devices to track [...]

Misuse of Skype, VOIP bring them under IB scanner

Police asked to develop de-encryption software to improve gathering of technical intelligence on terror groups, who were using it to avoid detection.

The annual director general of police conference that was held last month brought out the security risk posed by services like Skype, which offer free phone calls over the internet, and VOIP (voice [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Dubai monitors social media for signs of unrest

Dubai is monitoring social media sites for signs of attempts to organise protests or strikes, a police official said on Wednesday, citing the large foreign labourer population as a concern.

Colonel Abdul Rahim bin Shafi, director of the Interior Ministry’s organised crime department in the United Arab Emirates city, said Dubai police were closely monitoring [...]

Riots thwarted by Blackberry and Twitter chat – police

Police say they prevented attacks by rioters on the Olympic site and London’s Oxford Street after picking up intelligence on social networks.

Assistant Met Police Commissioner Lynne Owens told a committee of MPs officers learned of possible trouble via Twitter and Blackberry messenger.

But Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin said he had considered asking authorities to [...]

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