SIEMENS
| NOKIA SIEMANS NETWORKS |
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| Official Website: http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/ |
| Official about page: http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/about-us/company |
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| Location: Nokia Siemens Networks, PO Box 1, FI-02022 Nokia Siemens Networks
Visiting address: Karaportti 3, 02610 Espoo, Finland |
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| Business: Law Enforcement Solutions/Lawful Interception/Monitoring and Intelligence Centers/Intelligence Platform |
| Contact |
| Phone: FINLAND +358 71 400 4000 and GERMANY +49 89 5159 01 |
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Contents
Background
Iran telecoms controversy
Siemens was part of a joint venture with Nokia in 2008 to provide Iran's monopoly telecom company with technology that allowed it to intercept the internet communications of its citizens to an unprecedented degree. The technology reportedly allowed it to use 'Deep Packet Inspection' to read and even change the content of everything from "emails and internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter". The technology "enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes" expert insiders told the Wall Street Journal. During the post-election protests in Iran in June 2009, Iran's internet access was reported to have slowed to less than a tenth of its normal speeds, and experts suspected this was due to the use of the interception technology. The joint venture company, Nokia-Siemens Networks, asserted in a press release that it provided Iran only with a 'lawful intercept capability' "solely for monitoring of local voice calls". "Nokia Siemens Networks has not provided any deep packet inspection, web censorship or Internet filtering capability to Iran", it said.
Products
Law Enforcement Solutions/Lawful Interception/Monitoring and Intelligence Centers/Intelligence Platform
- Siemens acquires Rugged and back door device Wired 4.25.2012
- SIEMENS Fall 2006 Magazine - Read page 40 "Ready for Action" regarding surveillance and data analysis capabilities.
Countries using Products
Tech and Business Partners
- Fujitsu-Siemens - see "Ready for Action page 40
- Infineon Technologies AG
"In recent years, Siemens’ R&D expenditures relative to its sales havebeen between 6.7 and 6.9 percent. In the years before 2001, when Siemens still owned an R&D-intensive semi-conductor business unit, these expenditures were even higher (today the semiconductor unit is an independent company called Infineon Technologies AG)." see page 51 Innovations @Siemens
Reports
- "Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore" Mediafilter
- 2009 Iran case
- 2008-03-31 Ein Monster aus dem Hause Siemens (ger.)
- 2008-04-03 Das Siemens-Monster und die Legalität (ger.)
- 2008-04-03 Wir wünschen guten Aufenthalt im Intelligence Warehouse (ger.)
- 2008-04-07 Datenjagd auf Dissidenten (ger.)
- 2009-06-22 Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology (WallStreetJournal)
- 2009-06-22 Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring (BBC)
- 2009-06-22 Provision of Lawful Intercept capability in Iran (NSN Press Release)
- 2009-06-23 Web Pries Lid of Iranian Censorship (The New York Times)
- 2009-06-24 Wie der Iran Twitter-User überwacht (ger.)
- 2009-06-29 Iran: Kommunikationsnetze fest im Griff (ger.)
