European Firms Assisted Gaddafi's Internet Monitoring Regime

riverat1 writes "The Next Web has a story on Muammar Gaddafi's monitoring of the internet and other telecommunications. As you might expect, the monitoring was intense. The story names companies that supplied the monitoring software, most notably Amesys, a unit of the French company Bull SA. There is a more detailed story behind the paywall at the Wall Street Journal." Boeing's Narus division may also have been involved (collecting very important Analytics and nothing suspicious of course). Update: 09/01 16:08 GMT by UL :Axure pointed out that VASTech (South Africa), ZTE (China), and the aforementioned Narus (US) also provided assistance, making the title of the article a bit inaccurate. It seems the Libyan Internet monitoring was an international affair (my apologies to Europe).

Re:Boycott time

[Anonymous Coward]

'Every oppressive regime, from Nazi Germany to China, needs unethical companies...'

Like IBM helped the Nazis find the Jews?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust [wikipedia.org]

(sorry for the early Godwin)