Blue Coat and the Syrian Government

This was brought to my attention in an article in the June Walrus magazine - "The New Cold War" - John Lorinc.

This was strange as an illegal shipment from the UAE to Syria was reported on the Blue Coat website (Dec 15 2011)

27 June 2012 I observed search activity from Syrian and Abu Dhabi that were viewing my posts on the use of Tor.

• "The New Cold War" - John Lorinc - The Walrus June 2012
• Update on Blue Coat Devices in Syria - from the Blue Coat Website 15 Dec 2011
• Update to TorButton breaks Tor GeoIP
• Using the Tor Browser package
• The Blue Coat web filter ProxySG
• The SecDev Group

The Walrus article also mentions OpenNet which I also had seen referenced with respect to surveillance of  UK Internet users.