Intrusion, prise de contrôle et destruction totale de comptes email, réception de messages d’erreurs, apparition de messages farfelus qui disparaissent après consultation, ce sont là quelques-unes des fâcheuses mésaventures qui constituent le quotidien de certains utilisateurs tunisiens des services de messagerie électronique.
Participants of the fourth session of Global Voices first day of its Summit 2008, discussed the tools to help create […]
WHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available coastline pictures. She sued […]
Facebook, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a […]
You’ve heard of Google bombing. Here’s an instant classic piece of Google Earth bombing, courtesy of the Tunisian opposition to a rather nasty dictatorship. The premise: That even despots like Tunisia’s Ben Ali want check out their house in Google Earth:-) His palace is now smothered with YouTube video testimonies by political prisoners (turn on the YouTube layer if it isn’t already).
Tunisia blocked access to both popular video-sharing websites, Youtube and Dailymotion, in order to prevent Tunisian netizens from watching video content featuring testimonies from former political prisoners and human rights activists. However, and as shown in this example, Tunisian cyberactivists are successful enough in besieging Carthage presidential palace, on Google Earth, with tens of human rights videos.
