A Hacker Foreign Legion Burrows Deep In Egypt, Syria

Hack the planet: Once focused on Sweden, Telecomix’s hacktivists have been expanding their international membership—and their targets. (credit: Nicky Bonne for Forbes.) (A version of this story, slightly shortened for space, will appear in the January 16th issue of Forbes.) One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring…

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A Hacker Foreign Legion Dives Deep In Egypt, Syria

Hack the planet: Once focused on Sweden, Telecomix’s hacktivists have been expanding their international membership—and their targets. (credit: Nicky Bonne for Forbes.) One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring protests and government crackdowns in which thousands have been killed, something strange happened on Syria’s Internet. As users…

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