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Nos récents articles sur Reflets, celui sur Syria News, et celui sur le Parlement syrien, comme chaque fois lorsque l’on parle de la Syrie, ont soulevé quelques commentaires exprimant une certaine perplexité. Ces commentaires sont parfois parfaitement construits et expriment des interrogations et des réserves parfaitement légitimes. Nous essayons donc de répondre à ces commentaires, et c’est aussi un peu l’objet de ce billet.
Quel est le point commun entre feu Mouammar Kadhafi et Bachar el-Assad ? La dictature sanguinaire, oui. Mais pas que. Tous deux ont pu compter – directement ou non – sur le savoir-faire de sociétés françaises pour surveiller les télécommunications de leur population.
Human rights group Privacy International is preparing to take legal action against the British government for failing to control exports of sophisticated spy technology to brutal regimes.
L’affaire syrienne est simple, vue d’ici : des émeutes populaires contre un despote, l’envoi par celui-ci de forces de police, militaires, pour mater l’insurrection, un bain de sang, une répression sanglante de la part du régime, des forces d’opposition qui tentent de renverser le dictateur, des Nations-Unies une fois de plus paralysées.
It has been more than a year and a half since demonstrations broke out in central Tunisia at the funeral for Mohamed Bouazizi. Bouazizi, a fruit vendor, set himself on fire in protest of police corruption and ill treatment. The protests sparked by his death spread rapidly throughout Tunisia, and the Arab world soon erupted in revolution. Protests followed in Egypt, Libya, Iran, and Syria, as well as a number of other countries, with strikes, demonstrations, marches and rallies. Social media was also used to organize protests, communicate with other activists, and uncover state attempts at repression and Internet censorship.
One of the problems hacktivists ran into when trying to disseminate useful information to people in Syria and Egypt was how to get through to people when DNS and web access are being filtered or outright blocked. Putting up web pages containing phone numbers of ISPs volunteering dialup access was something of a crapshoot because there was no guarantee that people would be able to view them. Someone (I don't remember whom) hit on the idea of contacting sysadmins in the Middle East by leaving messages in the access and error logs of their web servers. This works but pumping an entire list of phone numbers, usernames, and passwords by hand over HTTP requests gets old fast, to say the least.