{"id":19251,"date":"2025-06-24T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/tech-in-the-iran-israel-conflict-internet-blackout-crypto-burning-and-home-camera-spying\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:37:15","slug":"tech-in-the-iran-israel-conflict-internet-blackout-crypto-burning-and-home-camera-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/tech-in-the-iran-israel-conflict-internet-blackout-crypto-burning-and-home-camera-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech in the Iran-Israel conflict: internet blackout, crypto burning and home camera spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last week<\/p>\n<p>The war between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\">Israel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a>, though largely a fight of fighter planes, drones and bombs, is erupting in the digital realm as well. Both countries have long histories with digital warfare. The particular focus of the current conflict, Iran\u2019s nuclear program, was the target of one of the first cyberweapons meant to cause physical destruction, the sophisticated worm Stuxnet.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last week. My colleague Johana Bhuiyan reports:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/23\/iran-israel-internet-blackout-crypto-home-camera-spying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2fcd2c332b47c91cab40bfeaeccf466e318b3768\/314_0_2873_2298\/master\/2873.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=104fee761372596f42f1fb6e2f8f4302\" title=\"Tech in the Iran-Israel conflict: internet blackout, crypto burning and home camera spying\" \/>Iran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last week<br \/>\nThe war between Israel and Iran, though largely a fight of fighter planes, drones and bombs, is erupting in the digital realm as well. Both countries have long histories with digital warfare. The particular focus of the current conflict, Iran\u2019s nuclear program, was the target of one of the first cyberweapons meant to cause physical destruction, the sophisticated worm Stuxnet.<br \/>\nIran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last week. My colleague Johana Bhuiyan reports: Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran, clearly fearful of an online Israeli incursion, imposed a near-total internet blackout early last week The war between Israel and Iran, though largely a fight of fighter planes, drones and bombs, is erupting in the digital realm as well. Both countries have long histories with digital warfare. The particular focus of the current conflict, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/tech-in-the-iran-israel-conflict-internet-blackout-crypto-burning-and-home-camera-spying\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech in the Iran-Israel conflict: internet blackout, crypto burning and home camera spying<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}