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A comprehensive collection of technical reports, security analyses, and in-depth research. Exploring the depths of digital security with a critical lens.
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Digital Monitoring & Interception7 min read
Cutting Iran Off From the World on the Road to Becoming North Korea
The “Countering Infiltration” bill would make media, academic, and civil-society contacts with the outside world subject to authorization by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization.
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Citizens Privacy Rights16 min read
Kashef: The IRGC’s Integrated System for Data Collection and Citizen Surveillance
A leaked video offers a rare look inside Kashef, a system used by the IRGC’s Ministry of Intelligence to turn identity and phone records, device IDs, location and travel data—even visits to diplomatic sites—into searchable profiles of individuals and their networks.
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Citizens Privacy Rights24 min read
Digital Rights and Privacy Toolkit in Iran
A practical guide to citizens’ legal rights during surveillance and wiretapping, searches of phones and computers, interrogations, and the use of personal data in IRGC’s courts
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Citizens Privacy Rights123 min read
Right to Privacy in Iran
A legal analysis with a focus on surveillance
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Technology Supply Chains12 min read
Direct-to-cell offers Iranians future hope, not a fix today
Republishing Iran International’s report on Direct-to-Cell technology and examining the hopes, technical barriers, and security risks of direct mobile-to-satellite connectivity in Iran
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Technology Supply Chains16 min read
Reviewing the Security Ambiguities of the Iranian Daria Bond Phone
Multiple points of security risk and lack of transparency in the supply chain of the “Bond 5G” phone model under the Iranian brand “Daria”
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Digital Censorship & Repression11 min read
“Crowdsourced” Espionage: a New Strategy of the IRGC for Tighter Digital Repression
A review of the Islamic Republic’s digital surveillance patterns in suppressing citizen, building political cases, threatening citizens’ safety through digital tools
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Destructive Cyber Operations31 min read
From Attack to Containment: The Shared Failure Point in Iran’s Banking System
Iran’s banking disruption exposed a crisis in the middle layer of e-banking, where shared service cores, emergency isolation, uneven recovery and technical opacity all converged.
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Digital Monitoring & Interception11 min read
Taliban App Raises New Questions About Iran’s Surveillance Technology Exports
A static technical analysis of RTA Keyboard identified multiple security and privacy issues that raise serious concerns about user safety, transparency, and data protection.
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Destructive Cyber Operations25 min read
Unraveling the Islamic Republic’s Quarter Century Quest for Spherical Implosion
Was Fast16 the malware that struck at the core of the Islamic Republic’s implosion type nuclear weapons program, beyond what Stuxnet ever targeted?
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Citizens Privacy Rights9 min read
Filimo: How Iran's Leading Streaming Platform Exposes Users to Credential Theft and Cross-Border Profiling
A privacy audit of Filimo reveals plaintext credential storage, global analytics transmission, and embedded location surveillance, all operating within Iran's compelled-access jurisdiction where no independent data protection authority exists
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Digital Censorship & Repression25 min read
The New Map of Tiered Internet Access in Iran
From White Lines to Internet Pro: Reselling Blacklist Censored Internet to Authenticated Users
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