World is trying to get connected in every possible manner and here are some, want to isolate and have their own world.
The people of Iran will suffer the most, unfortunately.
Iran designing its own version of the Internet
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Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such is the history of authoritarian regimes. If North Korea weren't so backwards, I imagine they'd be trying to do much the same thing.
North Korea has their own Country Intranet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
Ha, I should've guessed. I knew Cuba had a network like that, wasn't aware of North Korea's.
Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#13How much of this is them "isolating" themselves and how much is it simply in response to the fact that they're cut off from doing commerce with much of the U.S. (and other countries?) due to trade sanctions, etc? serious question I would like to know the answer to
I think it's more the former than the latter. Restricting or controlling the flow of information is a standard tool for authoritarian regimes; it's easier to control your population when you can control how they perceive the world. The Iranians have additional incentives in their national security concerns, as they'd obviously like to avoid a repeat of the Flame attack.
Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#14The internet is (obviously) one of the best examples of the network effect.
Sure you can technically wall of a subset of it and live on your own, but why would any sane person want to? I mean I get it, they want to limit access to non ideologically compatible ideas, which is most of everything.
But then that severely limits the utility of their new internet. Right now the economy is coasting pretty heavily on oil exports. If unlike say Qatar, they don't invest massively in more long term sustainable economic growth (which tends to require education, hence Qatar's massive education boom) then in a bit they are going to be pretty screwed. And cutting off this access to information is just so short sighted.
It's like blinding yourself because right now you can afford the servants to take care of all your needs. Long term, when you run out of money, you might wish you had eyes so you could earn some new money.
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#15Oh man, that headline made me laugh.
Don't underestimate Iran. They aren't quite the US or Japan, but ahead of any middle eastern non Israel nation, probably ahead of India in many ways, and on par with Brazil or Spain or maybe Italy in terms of domestic engineering talent and ability.
Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#16Is it just me, or wouldn't it be fairly trivial for a troublesome country to just point a satellite at Iran and give citizens access that way?
Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#17This is obviously not going to solve the problem of cyber attacks. As I remember, even the stuxnet attack on their nuclear reactor was ultimately caused by transmission through a pen drive into an isolated network. No reason, the same cannot be achieved even if they isolate the country's network. More entry points as I see it.
Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#18Is it just me, or wouldn't it be fairly trivial for a troublesome country to just point a satellite at Iran and give citizens access that way?
It is possible, however it is inconvenient and sometimes impossible for the majority to gain access this way. Also a large portion of the population uses internet cafes to access the internet, and they'd have to switch over the the national interanet.
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#19Oh man, that headline made me laugh.
Don't underestimate Iran. They aren't quite the US or Japan, but ahead of any middle eastern non Israel nation, probably ahead of India in many ways, and on par with Brazil or Spain or maybe Italy in terms of domestic engineering talent and ability.
On the other hand, they are not geniuses to solve the problems of internet security once and for all. All they might manage to do is stop free flow of information into and out of the country. The "Iron curtain" never helped anyone.
To use Huawei's equipment to achieve their national security needs is just naive. You might as well handover your country's internet infrastructure to China itself.
[EDIT: Added some links regarding Huawei (Whether the allegations are true or not, they are controversial and risky to trust):
http://www.truthalliance.net/Archive/News/tabid/67/ID/9347/C...
http://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/2012/sep/14/are-foreign...
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Re: Iran designing its own version of the Internet
#20the Chinses government is doing this too.
hate the Great Fire Wall