Background:
- ‘Firms Aided Libyan Spies’, Wall Street Journal: August 30, 2011, article here
- ‘Spy Companies & Their Authoritarian Customers, Part 1: FinFisher And Amesys’, Electronic Frontier Foundation: February 16, 2012, article here
- FAST COMPANY article
- ‘The Surveillance Market and Its Victimes’, Bloomberg – Wired for Repression: December 20, 2011, article here
- “Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries”; Wikileaks – The Spy Files, article here
Snapshot of some companies (and where there from) complicit in selling internet censorship technology to government:
- USA:
- NetApp Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. gear to Syria. Blue Coat Systems Inc., McAfee Inc. / Smart Filter and NetApp products to Tunisia
- Narus in Egypt
- Finland:
- Nokia Siemens Networks to Iran, Belarus and Tunisia.
- Denmark:
- ETI A/S data interception gear to Tunisia.
- Ireland:
- AdaptiveMobile Security Ltd. message retrieval/storage to Iran.
- United Kingdom
- Creativity Software Ltd. location tracking gear to Iran.
- France:
- Qosmos SA scanning probes to Syria. Amesys technology to Libya.
- Germany:
- The former Siemens AG business now known as Trovicor GmbH to nations including Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco and Pakistan. Utimaco Safeware AG to Tunisia, Syria
A List of different companies:
| Number | Company | Contact | |||
| 1 | Cisco | John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 USA |
Twitter: @ciscosystems | ||
| 2 | McAfee | Stuart McClure, Worldwide Chief Technology Office McAfee Inc., Headquarters 2821 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA |
Twitter: @mcafee | ||
| 3 | Netsweeper | Perry Roach, CEO Netsweeper, Guelph, Ontario N1H 1A7 Canada |
Twitter: ? | ||
| 4 | Websense | Gene Hodges, CEO WebSense 10240 Sorrento Valley Rd San Diego, California 92121 USA |
Twitter: @websense | ||
| 5 | Smart Filter | ||||
| 6 | Blue Coat Systems, Inc | Greg Clark, President and CEO Blue Coat Systems, Inc 420 N. Mary Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085 |
Twitter: @bluecoatnews | ||
| Sandvine Incorporated | Dave Caputo, President and CEO Sandvine Corporate Headquarters 408 Albert Street Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3V3 Phone: +1 519 880 2600 Fax: +1 519 884 9892 |
Twitter: @sandvine | |||
| 7 | Huawei Technologies | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd Ren Zhengfei Chief Executive Officer Huawei Industrial Base Bantian Longgang District Shenzhen, 518129 China |
Twitter: @huaweipress | ||
| 8 | Verizon Communication Inc. |
Lowell C Mcadam Chairman, President, CEO Verizon Communication Inc. 140 West Street New York, NY 10007 United States |
@verizon | ||
| 9 | NetApp Inc. | ||||
| 10 | Hewlett Packard Co | ||||
| 11 | Nokia Siemens Networks | ||||
| 12 | Ericsson AB | ||||
| 13 | ETI A/S | ||||
| 14 | AdaptiveMobile Security Ltd. | ||||
| 15 | Creativity Software Ltd. | ||||
| 16 | Trovicor GmbH | ||||
| 17 | Utimaco Safeware AG | ||||
| 18 | Area SpA | ||||
| 19 | Narus | ||||
| 20 | FinFisher | unit of Gamma International—based in the UK | |||
| 21 | Amesys, unit of Bull SA—based in France | ||||
| 22 | SS8 | ||||
| 23 | Trustwave | ||||
| 24 | Crypton-m | ||||
| 25 | Thales |
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