American Tech Know-How Drives Both Sides of Arab Revolution -- Wired
As activists take to the streets in Syria, using the power of Facebook and Twitter and other social services to organize one of the many revolutions across the Middle East, other American technologies are propping up the very regime these protesters hope to topple.
According to recent reports from Bloomberg, hardware equipment from the Palo Alto, California-based computer giant HP and the Sunnyvale-based storage outfit NetApp underpins a surveillance system the Syrian government is building to monitor citizen e-mail and internet use amid the ongoing protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Citing documents describing the deals and a source familiar with the matter, Bloomberg says an Italian surveillance company known as Area SpA bought the American equipment from resellers in Italy.
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My Comment: And this technological/social media revolution is just starting. One can only imagine what we will be having 10, 20,30 years from now.
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