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On Christmas Day, Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked. "We were getting reports that user accounts had been deleted," Sullivan said. For Tunisians, it was another run-in with Ammar, the nickname they have given to the authorities that censor the country's internet. They had come to expect it. Now Ammar was in the process of stealing an entire country's worth of passwords.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/
Filed under: Ammar Facebook Internet Security Sidi Bouzid Tunisia
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