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

[Fouad Bajwa]

Censorship, surveillance, filtering and now limiting complete access to a
global network is all in fear of national security. Subnetworks will still
be penetrate-able because at the end of the day many citizens are not happy
with the regime that is taking decisions on their behalf without referendum
or public consultation.

We will see a reverse and adverse effect sooner or later. Apart from
Stuxnet, Iran continues to fear an Iranian Spring that may stifle the
government.

Fouad Bajwa
On Aug 9, 2012 1:27 AM, "Roland Perry" <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
wrote:

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> at 07:35:40 on Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@**gmail.com<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>>
> writes
>
>  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 memory card in any digital camera (or phone) is in effect a USB stick.
> My camera/phone even came with a USB stick adapter to plug the [micro-SD]
> memory card into.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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