http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/dear-hacker-please-help-us-eavesdrop-on-our-customers/
So the Saudis want help monitoring encrypted internet communication within the country. They claim it's to stop terrorism. Spoiler, these are the kinds of terrorists they're going to be going after (and beheading):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Kashgari
On the occasion of Mawlid on February 4, 2012,[17] Kashgari published three tweets about an imagined meeting with Muhammad:[8][9]
On your birthday, I shall not bow to you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me. I shall speak to you as a friend, no more.
On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more.
On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you've always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you.
According to Arab News, Kashgari will be charged by Saudi Arabian judicial authorities with blasphemy.[52] Human Rights Watch believes that he is to be charged with apostasy and that he has already been declared by Saudi religious authorities to be guilty of apostasy prior to trial.[53] In August 2012, Kashgari's family published a poem by him in which he apologized for the offense he had caused, and they asked publicly for his release, a common practice during Eid Al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. He was not released.[54]
So the Saudis want help monitoring encrypted internet communication within the country. They claim it's to stop terrorism. Spoiler, these are the kinds of terrorists they're going to be going after (and beheading):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Kashgari
On the occasion of Mawlid on February 4, 2012,[17] Kashgari published three tweets about an imagined meeting with Muhammad:[8][9]
On your birthday, I shall not bow to you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me. I shall speak to you as a friend, no more.
On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more.
On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you've always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you.
According to Arab News, Kashgari will be charged by Saudi Arabian judicial authorities with blasphemy.[52] Human Rights Watch believes that he is to be charged with apostasy and that he has already been declared by Saudi religious authorities to be guilty of apostasy prior to trial.[53] In August 2012, Kashgari's family published a poem by him in which he apologized for the offense he had caused, and they asked publicly for his release, a common practice during Eid Al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. He was not released.[54]
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