WSJ: Nokia, Siemens Help Iran Spy on Internet Users

How do you say “Operation Pinwale” in Farsi? According to a somewhat confusing Wall Street Journal story , Iran has adopted NSA-like techniques and installed equipment on its national telecommunication network last year that allows it to spy on the online activities and correspondence — including the content of e-mail and VoIP phone calls — of its internet users. Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Germany’s Siemens and Finland’s Nokia, installed the monitoring equipment late last year in Iran’s government-controlled telecom network, Telecommunication Infrastructure Co., but authorities only recently engaged its full capabilities in response to recent protests that have broken out in the country over its presidential election.

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WSJ: Nokia, Siemens Help Iran Spy on Internet Users

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