Hacking Team : the company that spied on you during the Tunisian revolution!

Classified by Reporters Without Borders among “The Enemies of Internet,” Hacking Team is an Italian company specializing in software, surveillance systems, and decryption. On 6 July 2015, company servers were hacked, rendering public 400 Gb of information. One item to have emerged is a table showing the company’s past and current clients where we find listed for Tunisia the ATI, Tunisian Internet Agency. According to the leaked information, ATI benefited from Hacking Team services via a contract for a “demo” system in 2011—in the midst of the country’s revolution.

Réseaux Henda Chennaoui 13 Mar 2014

Tunisie : Cybersurveillance, la tentation de la dictature !

Le système peine à changer de visage. Le retour des anciennes habitudes, mais surtout des anciens sbires de la toile tunisienne inquiètent, quant à l’avenir de la liberté d’Internet, et de la liberté tout court, en Tunisie. Telle que nous l’observons, sur le plan politique et médiatique, le bras de fer des forces contrerévolutionnaires n’est plus une hallucination conspirationniste. Elle est devenue une réalité.

Created in 2004, Nawaat is the pioneer of alternative journalism in Tunisia and the region and provides Tunisia-centered news and analysis. As a multi-award-winning online media and print magazine, Nawaat established itself as trusted provider of coverage specialized in topical news, particularly focusing on democracy, transparency, accountability, justice, civil liberties and rights. With a healthy and qualitative video production, our media is distinguished by its audacity, its independence, its innovation and its alternative accounts of Tunisia’s current affairs. In recent years, Nawaat has begun producing highquality video productions unmatched by most other independent media actors in Tunisia or the region. In January 2020 Nawaat lunched its quarterly Print Magazine, and, in mid 2020, Nawaat has increased its efforts to further develop its multimedia platform through collaborations with artists, multimedia technicians, designers and journalists, particularly through its Innawaation media incubation program. And starting from April 2021, Nawaat launched its yearly 3-days festival to showcase its media production work to the general public. (Read more about Nawaat.)

Hacking Team : the company that spied on you during the Tunisian revolution!

Tunisie : Cybersurveillance, la tentation de la dictature !

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