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When France Telecom Helps To Monitor Citizens Of An Authoritarian Regime
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The regime of Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia has undertaken to control
the online activity of citizens. It is now fitted with the general
surveillance technology called Deep Packet Inspection, thanks to the
help of France Telecom, of which the French state is the main
shareholder. In a country where dissidents are imprisonned over
accusations of terrorism, this news could undermine current efforts of
freedom of expression activists.
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The online anonymity project Tor reported on its<a class="liens" href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethiopia-introduces-deep-packet-inspection"> Blog</a>
on May 31 that the Ethiopian Government, via the Ethiopian
Telecommunication Corporation, has begun using the Deep Packet
Inspection technology, which allows the general surveillance of the
internet trafic in a country. Such monitoring has prevented Tor from
working in the country, although the website is still accessible.
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This information sparked concern among freedom of expression
activists, cyber-dissidents, journalists, who use the Internet to
disseminate reports on Human rights abuses in the regime of Meles
Zenawi, where dissent activities can lead to jail, under accusation of <a class="liens" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/world/africa/eskinder-nega-ethiopian-journalist-honored-by-pen.html">terrorism</a>.
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<strong>The shadow of a Western company?</strong> <br> <br> According to French daily newspaper <a class="liens" href="http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/S-informer/Monde/En-Ethiopie-France-Telecom-accompagne-la-censure-d-Internet-_NP_-2012-06-10-816727">La Croix</a> (fr), France Telecom has helped the Government implement the Deep Packet Inspection technology. Indeed, the French company <a class="liens" href="http://www.worldfolio.co.uk/region/africa/ethiopia/jean-michel-latute-ceo-of-ethio-telecom-ethiopia-n1179">created in 2010 Ethio Telecom</a>,
the monopolistic telecommunication company of the Eastern African
country. The system is likely to monitor 2,5 million mobile internet
user and 200,000 internet subscribers. Jean-Michel Latute, CEO of the
Ethiopian telecommunication company explained to la Croix's Journalist:
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<em>« We will use part of this service to control our bandwidth.
It will help us prevent abuse of clients, downloading full movies, for
example. This is a very useful tool. »</em>
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A justification that fails to convince Ethiopian journalist and blogger <a class="liens" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/endalkachew-h-mikael/23/872/21a">Endalkachew HaileMichael</a>, joined by Internet Sans Frontières:
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<em>« This is one of those ridiculous reasons that can be given by
an outdated and France Telecom backed Ethiopian Telecom company. The
internet connection has been a colossal source of frustration for many
internet users in Ethiopia. The majority of internet users rely on
cybercafés to access the web through slow and unreliable connections.
Many independent studies have confirmed that accessing an online e-mail
account and opening one message took six minutes in a typical Addis
Ababa cybercafé with a broadband connection. Hence to give such a reason
to apply DPI in such Ethiopian circumstance is a travesty. Besides the
restrictions on accessing political and nonaligned websites, accessing
individual’s blogs activists’ websites has been incredibly strict. To my
disappointment, I sometimes cannot even access my own websites. For
instance Abe Tokichaw an exiled Amharic satirist was forced to open new
blogs for more than 15 times by changing domain names of his blogs. He
looks like playing hide and seek with Ethio-Telecom. Finding ways to
circumvent this unfortunate circumstance has been difficult, though
still possible to say the least, and I think the main reason why
Ethio-Telecom forced to apply DPI is to muffle even more every possible
openings. »</em>
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Although arrestations haven' been made yet following the
implementation of the DPI, he believes it is just a question of time:
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<em>« One thing is sure laws are being readied to make arrests.
Recently they have ratified a law which the legislators argued that it
will help in fighting threats which would use internet telephony to
disrupt national security. I would definitely guess that such kind of
cases will be reported sooner rather than later. »</em>
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Deep Packet Inspection was used under Gaddafi's Lybia, to monitor activists who were organising the uprising. A <a class="liens" href="http://www.france24.com/en/20120522-libya-france-gaddafi-amesys-war-crimes-technology-firm-court-justice">judicial probe</a>
was recently opened in France against Amesys, the French company
which provided the tool to the then Lybian dictator, over complicity in
torture. <br>
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