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Syrian Computer Society

The Syrian Computer Society is an organization in Syria. It was founded by Bassel al-Assad in 1989, and was subsequently headed by his brother Bashar al-Assad, who would later become the President of Syria. It acted as Syria's domain name registration authority and was reported to have been closely associated with the Syrian state.

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The Syrian Computer Society (Arabic: الجمعية العلمية السورية للمعلوماتية, romanized: al-Jam‘iyya al-‘Ilmiyya as-Sūriyya lil-Ma‘lūmātiyya) is an organization in Syria. It was founded by Bassel al-Assad in 1989, and was subsequently headed by his brother Bashar al-Assad,1 who would later become the President of Syria. It acted as Syria's domain name registration authority and was reported to have been closely associated with the Syrian state.2

In May 2013, 700 domains registered by Syrians, mostly hosted at servers with IP addresses assigned to the Syrian Computer Society,3 were reported to have been seized by the U.S. DNS infrastructure operator Network Solutions.2 The domain names became registered to "OFAC Holding", believed to be a reference to the U.S. federal government's Office of Foreign Assets Control.3

Some members of the Syrian Computer Society belonged to the first group of supporters of the Syrian Electronic Army.4

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  1. Alterman, Jon B. (1998). "New Media New Politics?" (PDF). The Washington Institute. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  2. Sean Gallagher (May 8, 2013). "Network Solutions seizes over 700 domains registered to Syrians". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  3. "Trade Sanctions Cited in Hundreds of Syrian Domain Seizures". Krebs on Security. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  4. "Hunting for Syrian Hackers' Chain of Command". The New York Times. 17 May 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
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