The US adds Sandvine to its entity list, banning the networking equipment company from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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2/ The @CommerceGov Entity List: A rogue's gallery of companies threatening US national security (E.g. from🇨🇳&🇷🇺) and/or facilitating certain human rights abuses. Lately, a growing list of mercenary spyware firms have been added: NSO Group, Candiru, Intellexa, Cytrox... [image]
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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@CommerceGov @karen_freifeld 4/ @Sandvine's Deep Packet Inspection shows up in all the wrong places. LIke last year, when my colleague @billmarczak found that that their gear was used in a spyware injection attack against Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy.👇 https://…
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@rondeibert
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Last fall, we @citizenlab published a report showing that @Sandvine's tech was used to target malware at an Egyptian opposition politician's phone https://citizenlab.ca/... [image]
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@rondeibert
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@Sandvine Notably, @Sandvine took issue with that report and demanded we return the second-hand PacketLogic device we purchased from @eBay to refine our network measurement tests, threatening legal consequences if we didn't. We stood our ground. https://citizenlab.ca/... [image]
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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@CommerceGov ... 6/ Meanwhile, countries where @sandvine's tech has been used for #censorship surfaced in @rj_gallagher's vital reporting: #Algeria #Afghanistan #Azerbaijan #Egypt #Eritrea #Jordan #Kuwait #Pakistan #Qatar #Russia #Sudan #Thailand #Turkey #UAE #Uzbekistan https://…
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@rj_gallagher
Ryan Gallagher
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Sandvine was originally founded in Canada & was acquired by US-based private equity firm Francisco Partners in 2017. More about Francisco Partners & its role profiting from repressive surveillance & censorship: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@rj_gallagher
Ryan Gallagher
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Comes after we reported in Sept that Sandvine had made sales worth more than $30 million in Egypt, including to state-owned Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Egypt & to government agencies including Egypt's Ministry of Defense & the National Telecom Regulation Authority....
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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BREAKING: 🇨🇦Canadian networking company @Sandvine blacklisted by🇺🇸@CommerceGov. Added to Entity List for human rights abuses in #Egypt like enabling: ❌Mass monitoring ❌Censoring news ❌Spyware targeting. Super interesting case 1/ Announcement: https://public-inspection.federalregi…