The presence and use of commercial Internet filtering technologies in countries with poor records of human rights practices have always raised questions about the ethical practices of the providers of such technologies.
įigure 5: Map of network connectivity of 3 ISPs in Somalia. Hence, the installation of Netsweeper filtering technology on Hormuud and Telesom is significant giving their strategic positions these networks are not just local providers or resellers, but rather among the telecom providers that exert the leverage of shaping and controlling Internet traffic and information flow into and out of the entire country. Mapping the ASNs of three telecommunication networks in Somalia shows that telecommunications companies Hormuud, Telesom, and SomCable are gateways to Internet connections from and to Somalia. The format of this blockpage URL is consistent with the use of Netsweeper devices.47 In addition, the original redirect explicitly refers to Netsweeper (?). However, the correct blockpage can be viewed by replacing with the IP address found via Shodan, as seen below in Figure 4.įigure 4: Blockpage on ISP Hormuud Telecom Somalia at This will prevent the correct image from loading, and appears to be the result of a misconfiguration. The blockpage attempts to load the image ? URL]/webadmin/deny/images/hormuud_block_page.JPG?, where is the URL being tested, instead of opening it from a Hormuud hosted site.
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