Overseas IT firms offer
Of the 1,100 prisoners of conscience currently languishing in jails throughout
Given Burma’s recent efforts to get its hands on the most advanced security and spying software available, however, that statistic may be about to change.
Companies and IT specialists from the US, Canada, Britain, Thailand and Singapore are now offering their wares to the Burmese government as it strives to further secure the net, meaning those that have been bypassing the country’s filtering system thus far may be in for a nasty surprise.
“Burma’s system of internet control…may worsen as it moves to a more sophisticated software product and as the state moves to tighten online restrictions,” the Open Net Institute—a collaboration between the universities of Harvard, Toronto and Cambridge—said in a report published last month.
But since its publication, the situation has been progressing even more quickly in Burma’s IT sector—ONI’s research does not include deals done since the spring, when it conducted its research into the activities of US-based Fortinet.
The company appears to have been involved in
MMG would not take calls to discuss the arrangement, while Teh himself says Fortinet has no involvement in
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