Confessions Of A Tunisian Hacktivist | TechCrunch
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How do you start a hackers’ group in a country where censorship is so severe?
We indeed have had to bear the brunt of police online surveillance and censorship. Since the start, I have been writing about the tips and tricks to defy this censorship, which was one of the toughest in the world. To give you an idea, YouTube and other video sharing platforms were blocked. Even Facebook was sometimes being shut, but the Tunisian government had to reinstate it because of pressures from the US government.
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What have you been doing after Ben Ali’s overthrow?
Ben Ali’s fall has not meant the end of the system for internet control and surveillance in Tunisia. A former director of Tunisie Telecom, the company in charge of granting access in the country, stated that a gateway node still existed between the National Internet Agency and Europe. This node could enable whoever controls it to actually watch over the entire network here. A few questions nag me : where are Ben Ali’s engineers? Where is the data that was stolen all these years? We are still on the lookout for these systems of control and this data. We intend to answer these questions. This is the dream of every hacker and every blogger in Tunisia.