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August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
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You don’t have to pay for protection

This post is part of special series of articles focusing on managing your online security and privacy. The complete series can be found in Persian at this link: http://bit.ly/n19Pzk.

Easy to use software is available that will keep your computer safe, and some of it is actually! Better yet, you can download anti-virus protection from the internet and install it in minutes. The best part: these applications don’t constantly bug you about renewing that subscriptionWe’ve made a short list of the best of these programs. So get rid of those tiresome constant pop-ups! Or, in the case that you don’t have an anti-virus program installed, start protecting your computer and your personal information better! AVG (Used by writer and recommended)Link: http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage AviraLink: http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus AvastLink: http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-downloadRead more...
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August 25, 2011
August 25, 2011
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Google+ or Minus

This post is part of special series of articles focusing on managing your online security and privacy. The complete series can be found in Persian at this link: http://bit.ly/n19Pzk. Are There Security Concerns for Google+?

Google+ is the newest effort from Google to break into the social networking sphere. Some claim as high as 20 million unique accounts have been made since its release just a few months ago. However, like any social networking website, Google+ is not without flaws. This post will try to address some of these issues to two different sets of people, those living under governments that sponsor large-scale censorship and those who live under relative internet freedom.Read more...
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August 22, 2011
August 22, 2011
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Two Important Facebook Issues: Privacy and Attack Rumors

This post is part of special series of articles focusing on managing your online security and privacy. The complete series can be found in Persian at this link: http://bit.ly/n19Pzk. Two Important Facebook IssuesFacebook has been in the news for two unrelated, yet disturbing issues. One concerns rumors of an attack on Facebook by the group Anonymous. The other is related to Facebook's newest privacy intrusion. People who use its mobile phone application have found that the phone numbers of their contacts are now being imported into Facebook's database.Read the complete post...
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August 19, 2011
August 19, 2011
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Ali Motahari on Freedom of Assembly, Water Fights in Iran, and More…

Iran's parliament member Ali Motahari speaks about the freedom of assembly in an interview with Fars News, translated by TehranBureau. Political prisoners in Evin complain to the Prosecutor General about using their families as pawns. Playful water fights become a new battleground for hardline forces inside the regime, and Iran's image plummets in the Arab World.

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August 2, 2011
August 2, 2011
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Online Social Capital?

This week's featured article from Arseh Sevom's Civil Society Zine is Christina Ashtary's piece examining the development of social capital in politically restrictive environments. Can trust be developed between individuals who meet online? By now, most of us know couples who wooed one another online long before they ever met. Why not activists?Ashtary argues that trust and social capital are being created even among those who know each other as bits and bytes, communicating solely (for a time, at least) in the virtual realm. She discusses how the control of public spaces by the regime in Iran has led to a transfer to the virtual sphere, Weblogistan: a digital Iran that transcends geographical borders and oppressive control.Read more...
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July 13, 2011
July 13, 2011
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Round-up of News and Opinion

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center presents a chart of executions in Iran since the 2010, most confirmed by official and semi-official sources.In the Washington Post, Thomas Erdbrink reports on the effects of sanctions after the Obama administration issued a statement tying one of Iran's largest ports to the Revolutionary Guards
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