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France24
For the first time, Facebook describes how, at the height of the protests that led to the ouster of Bin Ali, he has tried to lay hands on the identifiers of users of the famous Tunisian social network.
By Sebastian Seibt (text)
"We had never met a security problem the scale that took place in Tunisia. "Facebook has detailed this weekend, he led the battle to counter attempts by the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to retrieve the identifiers of users Tunisian the famous social network during the unrest that led to the escape of the former president. A communication operation that gives, of course, the handsome star at the role of Web 2.0, but also casts a harsh light on how the trying to control access to the Net.
In an interview on Monday at the American Cultural
monthly "The Atlantic"
Joe Sullivan, the head of the security within Facebook, talks about the incident. It all began during the holiday season, says he. Many users complain Tunisian then seeing their Facebook account deleted.
Customers Tunisian
boiling following the immolation of young Mohamed Bouazizi, Sidi Bouzid, December 17
, fear of censorship. At first, Facebook can not identify the problem.
apolitical posture
Ultimately, it will take about ten days the team of Joe Sullivan to understand what's happening in the country. "The leading provider of Internet access (ISP) [Tunisia] had established an unprecedented system for recovering logins and passwords for Tunisians registered on Facebook, "said one. The social networking site accuses unnamed Tunisian Agency of Internet (ATI) to have engaged in the pleasure of hacker crime.
The organization, which depends 
Department of Telecommunications, was injected on the login page to Facebook a cookie to save your email address and the password that users wrote in logging. malicious codes online
To circumvent the problem, Facebook has implemented a secure login page (one address "https" instead of "http") for all Tunisians. The user who wanted access to their account should also confirm his identity by answering a security question. Two steps, by Joe Sullivan, were sufficient to prevent the regime of Ben Ali can delete or edit their Facebook accounts. The firm Global Voices Facebook
were even published on the Internet.
http://www.france24.com/fr/20110124-facebook-ben-ali-censure-tunisie-revolution-internet-sidi-bouzid-ammar-confidentialite
To circumvent the problem, Facebook has implemented a secure login page (one address "https" instead of "http") for all Tunisians. The user who wanted access to their account should also confirm his identity by answering a security question. Two steps, by Joe Sullivan, were sufficient to prevent the regime of Ben Ali can delete or edit their Facebook accounts. The firm
Mark Zuckerberg has therefore been drawn into a major political event. "We decided to treat this as a mere technical problem and keep an apolitical stance," said Ted Sullivan, however. That is why the American group whereas the former president Ben Ali stepped down to reveal the story. This episode confirms 
, anyway, the tight control on the Net Tunisian denounced for months by both Tunisian and by international organizations to defend freedom of expression. In July 2010, the Internet had thus moved from an attempt by authorities to retrieve the identifiers of the subscribers to Gmail, Google's e-mail.
Yahoo Mail and were even published on the Internet.
http://www.france24.com/fr/20110124-facebook-ben-ali-censure-tunisie-revolution-internet-sidi-bouzid-ammar-confidentialite
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