[governance] Iran's ministries to go offline: phase one of move to intranet society

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Clearly this is based on paranoia the moves towards an insular society and
walling off the rest of the world from the Internet and its marvellous
contraptions, opportunities, are based on fear. They are based on a fear
that their security would be threatened. If there is anything to be learnt
from Stuxnet, it is this, despite having an intranet, the virus was
transmitted through a USB key and the manner in which USB keys are evolving
from toys, pens, pendants, what is to stop anyone from penetrating a
nation's defence.

The impact of the Internet on how we live our lives never ceases to amaze
me. I suppose when they created their elite army to hunt down dissidents
within Iran is also a powerful factor, that they would not want the Arab
Spring dynamics to happen in Iran. When a country fears its own people and
fears those outside its walls, it's a sad day for humanity.
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