* Patrick: > I'd love to see the exact reference if you can find it.
James Harkin, »Neue Medien in Syrien«, translated by Bernhard Schmid. Lettre International 104 (spring 2014 edition), p. 33. Sadly, I have not found the English original online. Relevant quotes are: »Die amerikanische Botschaft in Damaskus hatte ihn [Amjad Siofy] und seine Freunde mit Proxy-Software und Satellitentelefonen versorgt, mit denen sich die Internetüberwachung des Regimes umgehen ließ. Man habe die Sachen über eine Organisation mit dem Namen Damascus Revolutionary Council verteilt, sagte er mir, aber das sei „nur Theater“ gewesen; es sollte nur niemand mitbekommen, daß Amerika bei der Bewaffnung der syrischen Revolution aushalf.« Approximate back-translation: “The U.S. embassy in Damascus supplied him [Amjad Siofy] and his friends with proxy software and satellite phones, with which they could evade the Internet surveillance of the regime. He told me that the items were distributed by an organisation named Damascus Revolutionary Council, but this was ‘mere theater’; nobody should notice that the United States helped the Syrian revolution by arming it.” There is a longer section in the article later on (»Katz und Maus«, p. 35) which discusses the Office for Syrian Opposition Support (OSOS), non-lethal aid (»nichttödlicher Hilfe«), and the supply of satellite phones, high-tech walkie-talkies, proxy sofware, etc. to the tune of 123 million USD in 2013, mostly to the Free Syrian Army. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
