Iran strikes again

[nikimcbee]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1299440/Iranian-womens-rugby-team-field-wearing-modesty-preserving-headscarves-tracksuits.html

:har:

'The whole team has learnt how to keep the veil in place so that it doesn't interfere with play and I think we have shown that even a physical game like rugby can be played in a veil.



Now they need a beach volleyball team.:har:

[papa_smurf]

You can always rely on the good 'ole Daily Mail to report on the really important news.

[The Third Man]

What do you make of UAE and the Saudi's criminalizing/banning the blackberry usage? Is it a prelude to something using their airspace and removing fast clandestine reporting?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100801/ap_on_hi_te/ml_emirates_blackberry

[Jimbuna]

What happens if you pull a veil off whilst tackling?....a death sentence if your team ever plays in Iran :hmmm:

[TLAM Strike]

What do you make of UAE and the Saudi's criminalizing/banning the blackberry usage? Is it a prelude to something using their airspace and removing fast clandestine reporting?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100801/ap_on_hi_te/ml_emirates_blackberry

If you are talking about Israel I doubt it. The Iranians have early warning sites in Syria.

[The Third Man]

If you are talking about Israel I doubt it. The Iranians have early warning sites in Syria.

This action was done by states away from Syria. States which are historically within the US influence.

[TLAM Strike]

This action was done by states away from Syria. States which are historically within the US influence.

My point is if you are talking about a strike by Israel stopping IMs in Saudi doesn't matter, Iran already has warning of an attack.

US forces are based out in the desert in these "Military Cities" where they can just shut off cell coverage at will.

I think Saudi and the UAE just want to prevent tweets and stuff like happened in Iran earlier this year.

[Skybird]

Blackberries manage all communication traffic via servers in foreign nations, namely the US/Canada, without security services in the UAE, saudi Arabia or other foreign nations having insight on what gets stored where and for how long, and who gets access to those data storages, also, even during transmission procedures eventual law enforcement or coutner terrorism operations are not capable to track and read the content of messages being send. But especially the servers located in nations beyond control of UAE/Saudi Arabia, and most likely being accessible to american intel services, is a mjaor concern for the UAE and Saudi arabia.

The producing company RIM refused to set up a proxy server inside the UAE.

China, Kuwait and India also see major security risks with Blackberries and the servers in foreign, pro-US nations.

For all these nations, it is of course also about internal supression and censorship options, but the argument that Wetsern intel services may be allowed to access the RIP servers in North America and thus getting intimate nowledge and complete data sets on communicationr ecors in, to and from these countries, is a valid argument. I vaguely remember that some governmenbt bodies int he US, and the Pentagon I think also forbid the use of Blackberries some years ago, for security concerns and the fear that sensible data could be transferred to unauthorised receivers too easily with these. But I do not know what became of this story.

If I were a company where sensible data could attract spionage, I would ban Blackberries and all kind of smartphones, too. I would also design my internal computer system as an island system (physically disconnected from the outside), with strict secueity control of for any computer access. Open networks are just an inviting prey for hackers. there is a reason why economic cyber-spionage has exploded in quantity in recent years. Today there is more spionage activity than there ever was during the cold war. And most of it is economy-related. The UAe and Saudi Arbaia may not be great inventors and industrial and scientific hotspots, but they are big financial traders, and terror is a clear and present danger in that region, posing a threat both to the so-called moderate and the tyrannic regimes, because both are seen as corrupted by Quranic terms.

[Skybird]

http://www.faz.net/s/RubD16E1F55D21144C4AE3F9DDF52B6E1D9/Doc~E161C122B108F44E69E6CC1A952C454E7~ATpl~Ecommon ~Scontent.html

The EU has banned the use of Blackberry smartphones for it's internal employees as well, referring to security deficits, but it still allows the use of Apple smartphone, which also are under fire for sesucrity risks. In Germany, several ministries have forbidden both Blackberry and Apple, and for all other ministries a recommendation exists not to use Blackberry and Apple smartphones. RIM reacted by saying they want to make email, communication safer aaginst communication net attacks and hackers - but if they do, right this will make more nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE to ban them, becasue they cannot control them anymore.

I personally think it is good advise to simply not use these and other net-dependant service for communicating sensible business, political and personal informations. Leave the use of smartphone to entertainment and harmless chatting - and if you need such an expensive thing for only chatting with your friends when a simple cellphone would be sufficient, I dare to doubt. In other words: I cannot understand this hype about smartphones anyway.

[krashkart]

In other words: I cannot understand this hype about smartphones anyway.

They are great for distracting drivers on those long, boring commutes to and from work. Why drive when you can text, tweet, and check email? :yeah::shifty:

Communication is so much more important than keeping the engine block out of one's torso...

[Weiss Pinguin]

In other words: I cannot understand this hype about smartphones anyway.
They are fantastic on long roadtrips ;) Also I have a lot of downtime (and alone time) so anything to keep busy. With the web browser it's like having 3-5 books on hand, plus magazines.