http://observers.france24.com/content/20130624-tunisia-internet-censorship-hackers-servers
By Moez Chakchouk
France 24
24/06/2013
The Tunisian Internet Agency has just opened access to the basement of a villa
in Tunis where government employees censored the Internet under former dictator
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali’s regime. The infamous servers used to monitor Internet
usage are still there -- but now, in a role reversal, Tunisian hackers have
taken them over and are trying to discover their secrets.
The agency opened up its doors to hackers on June 15. They will now be able to
use the venue as a lab to organise workshops and develop projects on Internet
governance for Tunisia. The venue has been renamed 404 Lab, a reference to
Ammar 404, the expression used by Tunisians under the Ben Ali regime to refer
to Internet censorship.
Since the lab opened, a team of young programmers has been meeting there every
day in order to crack the machines, which have not been used since Ben Ali’s
fall.
The 404 Lab was launched the day before the agency’s third conference on
Internet freedom, which took place last week and largely focused on online
transparency and protection of personal data.
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