The people in charge of countries that do things like block Facebook tend to be the same ones where online identities and private data seem most likely to be hacked – sadly, by the authorities you’d be expecting to protect these things.
Fortunately, this doesn’t appear to be as much of an issue in the West (notwithstanding the infamous wiretaps by the NSA). But in places like Iran, where regime-backed hackers and their handlers appear to be keeping tabs on bloggers they don’t like, shutting down websites, stealing their identities and even throwing their online opponents in prison, data privacy and security issues comes in a different context (See Iran’s New Internet Attack On Dissenters).
Scary stuff. Anyone out there want to offer a solution to the question, “What do you do when the government hacks your online identity?” To be honest, I’m a bit stumped on this one. Leave your solution in a comment, please.
Contributed by Jonathon Narvey, Communications
Comments (3)Vaclav Vincalek June 29th, 2009 10:00:00 AM