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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Cyber attacks are the norm
A Canadian study has revealed a vast digital spying operation apparently originating in China, which has gathered information from computers in over 100 countries. In an interview with the weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, author Nicolas Arpagian comments on the role of the Internet in intelligence strategies: "You can make a website - and its host - crash by bombarding it with simultaneous hits. ... It is also possible to alter a site's contents, as shown by attackers from Georgia and Estonia who put images of Adolf Hitler on many websites throughout the net. ... In the future all classical conflicts will be combined with cyber attacks. The Chinese have enormous means at their disposal. They were the first to start developing a digital military strategy, but now the whole world has joined in. The [German] news magazine Der Spiegel recently revealed that the BND, or German Intelligence Service, carried out 2,500 computer attacks in the last couple of months."
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Online media, » Asia, » Global
Sarkozy in north Africa, 'Chirac to the T'
Christophe Boltanski is critical of the new French President's attitude during his tour of north Africa this week, his first trip outside Europe. "Nicolas Sarkozy, who views French diplomacy as too light on dictators, didn't wait long to re-enact the good old ways of his predecessor at the Presidential Palace. During his visit Tuesday [July 10th] to Tunis, he carefully refrained from criticising his host, President Zine el-Abdidine Ben Ali, on public liberties. In praising the 'economic development' of the country, he even noted the 'progress' made on the road to democracy. Almost Chirac to the T. What does it matter that the major players in Tunisian civil society attest to the opposite? ... In Tunisia, like in China or Russia, Jacques Chirac didn't say anything else: in terms of Human Rights, it's better to use discreet channels than to openly critique a regime. It's a policy for which dissidents in Beijing and Tunis are still waiting to see benefits."
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