ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Strategy Page
29March2011 3:30amEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: In the last few months, the government has quietly attacked the security of electronic communications in and out of the country. The government has organized a team of hackers (Iranians and foreign mercenaries) to use various method (deep packet inspection, forged SSL certificates) to read email that users thought was encrypt or anonymous. That may explain an increase in the number of pro-reform people arrested lately. But the main goal appears to be scaring the opposition away from using the Internet. (read full report)