Siemens Helps Iran Spy on Dissidents

Weekly Standard ^ | 6/23/09 | Michael Goldfarb

[pissant]

The Wall Street Journal reports on the German firm's shady dealings with the Iranian regime, which included helping the country develop "one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale."

This story was even more shocking the first time I read it in the Washington Times.

[pissant]

One of many reasons I write Siemens out of my specifications.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Once a Nazi, always a Nazi.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I wonder who their other customers are?

[Fitzy_888]

Here is Siemens SSK (Iran) celebrating the grand opening of their state of the art training center in Iran for staff and customers. Presumably, this is where the creme of the crop basiji might go. A place to learn the skills required to efficiently monitor and archive the private communications of their fellow countrymen (in the interest of future prosecution, torture and death).

As Siemens SSK puts it: “The new building disposes in its classrooms of several facilities such as wireless LAN and telecommunication cabling, data projectors and accessories, 380V PDBs, suspended ceiling and anti-static raised floor.”

Oh and look, what a nice day and fun time for all:

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[ Note I don’t know how to post a picture, if someone might post them directly. Otherwise, they’ve been saved for ‘posterity’. ]

[Fitzy_888]

Currently in advertisements on Clear Channel Communications radio stations, Siemens is lauding their Green Lighting Division and Building Systems Division here in the United States. Extremely offensive given Siemens technology may soon be employed by the Regime to identify protestors. {Nobody will document their plight.}

Yes, the same stations that carry Rush, Hannity, and Levin.

If you have an issue with that, you might want to make a complaint to Clear Channel Communications and your local radio station.