Francisco-Backed Sandvine Cancels Belarus Deal, Citing Abuses

Sandvine, the technology company backed by private equity firm Francisco Partners, canceled a deal with Belarus, saying the government used its technology to violate human rights. From a report: The company's technology, which is used to filter and manage internet networks, was used by a state-run internet agency in Belarus to block thousands of websites in the country amid nationwide protests over a disputed election, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 28. Sandvine said in a statement on Tuesday that a preliminary investigation determined that "custom code" was inserted into its products "to thwart the free flow of information during the Belarus election." The Tuesday announcement comes days after Sandvine was criticized by many including politicians .

Oops we got caught

[innocent_white_lamb]

Oops we got caught with those cookies.

We didn't like that flavour of chocolate anyway. Right, guys?

Re:

[rtb61]

No, the US government paid them more not to. They will fail at this particular colour revolution the Belarusians have learned what it means to be fucked over and pillage by the US and EU. No great value in having to prostitute your women and children to perverts from the EU, have you gold stolen and all public lands stolen and sold to the lowest bidder that pays the biggest bribe. You arms industry destroyed because you must buy US rubbish. Tricked into doing something extremely evil and be now trapped by i

Too Late

[godel_56]

Belarus already has the technology and Sandvine already have the money. Also I'm sure Belarus feels completely justified in copying the technology and giving it or selling it to all its authoritarian mates

TURBULENT and TURMOIL

[BardBollocks]

oh look! Virtue signalling!

Question asked and answered

[quonset]

Last week I posed the question [slashdot.org]: What does the company do if it finds its products being used in a manner "detrimental to human rights."? Does it wag its finger at the country and say stop using our product?

Apparently the answer is . . . nothing. Sure, they'll stop providing support and updates, but the government has the product and can still use it. The company got its money, and that's what counts.

Sandvine...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are these the jackasses who provided the tech Comcrap used to block bittorrent?

Re:

[Mister Transistor]

Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

Sandflea would have been a more appropriate name.

Cheap virtue signaling

[jbssm]

Here is a cheap way to do some virtue signaling. Of course, that when it comes to do the same thing to China, mum's the word.