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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.
Le réseau Internet est devenu, en un temps record à l'échelle de l'humanité, un des vecteur les plus populaires dans l'accès à la connaissance. Nous vivons encore dans un pays qui respecte, mais pour combien de temps, l'accès libre à cette énorme source d'information. Mais "libre" ne veut pas dire "non contrôlé". Les évènements récents ont réveillé chez certains la volonté de regarder d'un peu plus près ce que vous faites à partir de votre navigateur Web. En tant que fervent partisan de la liberté d'accès aux réseaux informatiques, je vous propose de découvrir Tor, un système permettant de compliquer la tâche des mouchards en rendant anonyme la consultation des sites Internet.