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Iran: Rogue SSL certificate and Iranian dissidents

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Digital Activism, Technology

Internet users and dissidents in Iran are believed [1] to be at particular risk from the rogue SSL certificate, which is used to digitally “sign” HTTPS connections to any google.com site and was issued by a Dutch company called DigiNotar on 10 July. Read more here [2].