Equipment from Blue Coat Systems has also made its way to Syria, where the government is using it to control information and find dissidents.
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In another case, according to a report in the Washington Post, technology supplied by Blue Coat Systems Inc. was used to censor and track Internet usage in Syria.
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The Telecomix group initially looked into the Syrians' use of Blue Coat systems in 2011, generating data that was the basis for a Wall Street Journal article that same year.
Blue Coat Systems shares are losing ground Monday morning after Lazard Capital analyst Ryan Hutchinson this morning cut his rating on the WAN optimization software stock to Neutral from Buy.
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Blue Coat Systems shares are trading sharply lower in the after-hours session Thursday after the Web security and wide-area network optimization software company reported disappointing guidance for the July quarter.
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Blue Coat Systems Inc. acknowledged in an interview last year that Syrian Internet providers were using its devices to block websites, though the California-based company said it never sold the technology to Syria.
Information about Blue Coat in Syria began to trickle out in August, after a "hacktivist" group called Telecomix managed to gain access to unsecured servers on Syria's Internet systems and found evidence of Blue Coat filtering.
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