How A Canadian Cracked The Great Firewall Of China
From Globe and Mail:
When Nart Villeneuve couldn’t remember the password to his Chinese MySpace page, the industrious Canadian hacker began examining China’s version of Skype, and in the process, unlocked the inner workings of an Internet surveillance network tracking thousands of political activists in the world’s most populous nation.
From his tiny research lab at the University of Toronto, Mr. Villeneuve uncovered a system of servers containing the archived communications and personal information of thousands of dissidents and ordinary citizens using the popular online messaging service Skype.
“You can see that they’ve been tracking people who have been using Skype as a platform to promote freedom of expression and to criticize the communist party in China,” Mr. Villeneuve said.
“We don’t know who they gave access to those logs.”
Read also TOM-Skype Q & A by Nart Villeneuve.
Origin: Matt Hartley, Globe and Mail
POSTED COMMENTS: 2 Responses
Hacking is illegal. Nart Villeneuve must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
it is noted that the Pentagon has accused and vilified “Chinese hackers” more than once however this news post portrays the “Canadian hacker” as a hero. I have been to more than one Canadian city and I am not impressed. Shall the law fail to prosecute Nail Villeneuve in the public eye, I take it upon myself to prosecute him in the law of __my__ eye.
Come and get me if you phear.ca…