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Archive for November 17th, 2009

Telephone tapping in Turkey; a measure to intimidate the judiciary?: “

The issue is tapping of telephones and other electronic communications between the citizens of Turkey. The problem reached scandal proportions with revelations that judges, prosecutors and even Turkey’s Supreme Court was being bugged.

It all began in July 2005 when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan passed amendments to the laws governing the functioning of the police, intelligence services and the gendarmerie allowing them to tap telephone conversations without a court order. The same amendment also set up a unit called Telecommunications Directorate (TIB) that was given the task of overseeing the wire tapping both in telephone and internet connections.

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(Via SantralHaber Haberleri.)

The Pirate Bay Trackers Go Offline Forever: “Any other time in The Pirate Bay’s history, news about their centralized tracking servers going offline would be cause for celebration within the entertainment industry. Today, the crew of The Pirate Bay (whoever they are) have announced just that – the centralized and vulnerable server network that helped prop up the world’s largest BitTorrent-based P2P network has gone offline. Depending on who you are, this is cause for celebration or aggravation.”

(Via Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Information.)

IR – Iran moves to silence opposition with internet crime unit: “(Guardian)
Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country’s political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet. A 12-member team reporting to the chief prosecutor will scour websites with a view to pressing charges against those judged to be ’spreading lies’ and ‘insults’ against the Islamic system. Members will include police and personnel from other, unspecified, parts of Iran’s security apparatus.

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(Via QuickLinks Update.)