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Monday, January 28, 2013

Right protectors accuse American companies in supply of equipment for Internet censorship by authoritarian regime

The Citizen Lab research center operating in the University of Toronto announced that authoritarian regimes around the world use technologies developed by the companies of Silicon Valley for Internet filtering and users’ tracing.

In particular Canadian e-right protectors said that several countries use equipment developed by famous company Coat Systems as it was informed by SecurityLab.



“The received data confirms the necessity international and national verification of Blue Coat Systems in stated countries and also to carry out the “dual purpose” and communication technology’s global information spreading observation - according to the report.

Experts hope that their published report became the reason to observe Blue Coat Systems to be sure that the equipment produced in their company doesn’t use for the violation of human rights.

During the researches that were caring out this 2 weeks Citizen Lab’ experts found out the equipment Blue Coat ProxySG in the Net 61 and also 316 complexes of Blue Coat PacketShaper. All these allow filtering and censoring.


The equipment data was founded in Egypt, Kuwait, Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela.

Earlier the Blue Coat was accused of their equipment using by Syrian authorities fro Internet filtering and monitoring. At that moment the company said that their equipment can’’t be used for such measures and got there by illegal way.

Blue Coat Systems company was found at 1996. The company provides the security of Web-communications and release corporate business offers. Hardware-software complexes which allow limiting of unwanted Internet traffic and secure from malicious software's, undesirable content and other Web-threat and also to speed the work of of Net business application are very famous among those developed by the company. In 2008 the BlueCoat purchased the Packeteer company specialized in developing, monitoring and traffic controlling. According to IDC’s estimate is the best in the world in content’s security and application delivery.

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