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Software developed to bypass Iranian Internet censorship has been scrapped, due to various reasons.

Software created to help Iranians escape government control of the web has been withdrawn over security fears.

Wow this is kinda cool...

"Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran, where they left the image of a US flag on screens along with a warning: "Don't mess with our elections", the Iranian IT ministry said on Saturday. "The attack apparently affected 200,000 router switches across the world in a widespread attack, including 3,500 switches in our country," the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology said in a statement carried by Iran's official news agency IRNA"

"According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones. The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where. Such a system could help the government invisibly quash the ongoing protests - or those of tomorrow - an expert who reviewed the SIAM documents told The Intercept."

"ussian, North Korean, or Iranian state backed-hackers, for example, might now be able to execute much more convincing social engineering and election interference schemes in the US using this tool. ChatGPT can also generate multiple versions of these campaigns and many fake online profiles to promote them, to allow the success of such attacks through sheer volume or variation in content."