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Tibetan Dissident Blogger Hacked and Impersonated on Skype

EFF IN THE NEWS
By contolini
June 3, 2008

I was dismayed to learn that Tsering Woeser, the prominent Tibetan poet and blogger, has been under attack from the Honker Union.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that the hacker group has broken into Woeser's Skype account, and is advising anyone in the dissident network to block any form of communication from her account.

Steve Gold
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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