Internal Iranian carrier documents detail SIAM, an Iranian government web program for surveilling the country's cellphone users and disrupting communications
As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression. Tweets: @mazmhussain and @kenklippenstein Tweets: Murtaza Hussain / @mazmhussain : The Intercept obtained leaked documents on a secret Iranian government program for surveilling and controlling cellphone and internet users. The program is called SIAM and we are publishing documents on it today. https://theintercept.com/... via me and @samfbiddle: Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein : Hacked documents obtained by @samfbiddle & @MazMHussain reveal the secret methods by which the Iranian gov't can track and control protesters' mobile phones. https://theintercept.com/...