In a statement Friday, Blue Coat said it hadn't sold any of its products to Syrian customers and would investigate the possibility of additional devices ending up in Syria.

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Each marked line was filled in by hand in trademark Bugatti blue and a five layer coat of clear lacquer.

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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 Commerce Department action is part of a probe looking into how a set of at least 13 Blue Coat devices ended up censoring the Internet in Syria, a country subject to strict U.S. trade embargoes.

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As she tries on two of the designer's neoprene looks, a bright yellow dress and a blue coat, Gerlan squeals in delight.

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In 2002, it changed its name to Blue Coat and reinvented itself as a security company.

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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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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.

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In November, a bipartisan group of Senators asked the State Department and Commerce Department to investigate whether Blue Coat and NetApp had violated U.S. export laws.

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