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People around the globe are still coming online on the for the first time in their millions. That much of that growth comes from emerging markets is to be expected. More surprising is that some of the highest rates of internet adoption come from authoritarian states.Most famously, China has ...

In the wake of the anti-Islam YouTube video that has led to widespread protests in the Muslim world, Iran has announced that it intends to restrict access to Google products like search and Gmail indefinitely.Iranian citizens were informed of the government's decision via a message on state television and SMS ...

In another example of the censorship that lead to the country being declared the biggest enemy of internet freedom, the Iranian government is reportedly banning access to international email providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.According to AFP, the Iranian telecommunications agency has ordered that banks, insurance firms and ...

Iran plans to completely block its citizens from accessing the web by August. By then it hopes to restrict access to its own sanitised, internal Intranet.According to the International Business Times, the first phase of the project will be rolled out in May, during which services from the likes ...

In his latest book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, Jeff Jarvis traces the relationship between privacy and "publicness" and examines how it has been affected by a number of "new" technologies ranging from Gutenberg’s printing press and the Kodak camera ...

Almost 300 000 IP addresses originating from Iran applied for access to Google via an illegally obtained digital certificate. The certificate was issued by DigiNotar, a Dutch digital certificate authority.The certificate was rescinded at the end of August, but not before potential damage was done. The IP address list ...

Growing up in the nineties, television and film made me believe that hackers could do anything. I pictured an emaciated Russian teenager typing on the keyboard of his multiple monitor display, green text scrolling down a black screen. Those scrawny fingers could assume identities or muddle up traffic lights. They ...

Pop quiz: As an internet user, what is the world's worst country to live in? China with its Great Firewall comes to mind. Or perhaps Cuba, a country that until the end of Fidel Castro's reign in 2008 outlawed laptop computers and mobile phones. But it is in fact the ...

The United States plans to pump millions of dollars into new technology to break through internet censorship overseas amid a heightened crackdown on dissent in China, officials have said.US State Department officials said they would give US$19 million to efforts to evade internet controls in China, Iran and other authoritarian ...

Anonymous, the free-form leaderless internet hacker group has moved in the last year from its history of being "prankster" group with actions such as "Operation Titstorm", to an actual "group" that does present an actual (online) threat to those who come into its cross-hairs. The latest victim to fall in ...