RSF Names Names In Report On Online Spying 29
eldavojohn writes "Reporters without Borders has released a report on governments and the companies they employ to spy on their own citizens online. Syria and China were singled out as the worst with Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam not far behind. In addition, RSF named names when it came to the corporate entities (a market worth 5 billion dollars) that provided specific services to these oppressive governments: Gamma, Trovicor, Hacking Team, Amesys and Blue Coat. The report is aptly titled 'Enemies of the Internet' and, though lengthy, provides a detailed examination in the destruction of online rights as well as very specific attacks each government employs. RSF also noted the many attempted solutions to these problems and a link to their online survival kit."
Reporters w/o Borders:A dubious/shady organization (Score:5, Informative)
Any info from Reporters w/o Borders should be taken with a large grain of salt - is a dubious organization at best, a propaganda mouth piece for special interests. References:
"Reporters Without Borders Unmasked" [counterpunch.org]
"Reporters Without Borders seems to have a geopolitical agenda" [voltairenet.org]
"Source Watch: Reporters Without Borders" [sourcewatch.org]
Re:Going to name the American and European ones to (Score:5, Informative)
What about domestic censorship, monitoring and even censoring on all foreign communications? Spying on their own citizens are internal affairs, could be justified on maintaining order, internal peace or whatever, but doing it for most communications of other countries or between other countries? Wikipedia is [wikipedia.org] full [wikipedia.org] of references [wikipedia.org] on it [wikipedia.org], among [eff.org] others [salon.com], And is acting [theregister.co.uk] on the information that is gathering.