Tunisia

Tunisia (Arabic: تونس‎  Tūnis; Berber: ⵜⵓⵏⴻⵙ), officially the Tunisian Republic or the Republic of Tunisia (Arabic: الجمهورية التونسية‎  al-Jumhūrīya at-Tūnisīya; Berber: ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵏ ⵜⵓⵏⴻⵙ) is the northernmost country in Africa, covering 165,000 square kilometres (64,000 sq mi). Its northernmost point, Ras ben Sakka, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. As of 2013, its population is estimated at just under 10.8 million. Its name is derived from its capital city, Tunis, which is located on the country's northeast coast.

Geographically, Tunisia contains the eastern end of the Atlas Mountains and the northern reaches of the Sahara desert. Much of the rest of the country's land is fertile soil. Its 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) of coastline includes the African conjunction of the western and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Basin and, by means of the Sicilian Strait and Sardinian Channel, features the African mainland's second and third nearest points to Europe after Gibraltar.

Hector Monsegur

Hector Xavier Monsegur (born 1983) known also by the online pseudonym Sabu (pronounced Sə'buː, Sæ'buː), is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec. He later turned informant for the FBI, working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying other hackers from Lulzsec and related groups. LulzSec intervened in the affairs of organizations such as News Corporation, Stratfor, UK and American law enforcement bodies and Irish political party Fine Gael.

Sabu featured prominently in the group's published IRC chats, and claimed to support the "Free Topiary" campaign. The Economist referred to Sabu as one of LulzSec's six core members and their "most expert" hacker.

Identity

Sabu was identified by Backtrace Security as "Hector Monsegur [sic]" on March 11, 2011 in a PDF publication named "Namshub."

On June 25, 2011, an anonymous pastebin post claimed to identify Sabu as Hector Xavier Monsegur, a man of Puerto Rican origin.

Arrest and activity as an informant for the FBI

Bedwin Hacker

Bedwin Hacker is a Tunisian fictional film about a computer hacker and TV pirate who broadcasts messages promoting freedom and equality for North Africans, and the attempt by the French DST to find her and stop her. Released in 2003, it predated the 2010 Arab Spring by several years. The film breaks several stereotypes of typical Tunisian cinema.

Plot summary

The film opens with a pirate transmission of a cartoon camel superimposed over a speech by president Truman about nuclear power. The piracy originates in a remote location in North Africa based on the handiwork of a 'lone wolf' hacker, Kalt, working with her young acquaintance who calls her 'auntie'.

Kalt then rescues her illegal immigrant friend Frida from the clutches of French immigration in Paris by hacking the immigration computers. Kalt meets a journalist named Chams. Escaping the situation there, which includes police raids on immigrant meetings, they flee back to Tunisia.

In Tunisia Kalt resumes her pirate transmissions. Throughout the film we see various European TV broadcasts interrupted by her transmissions of the camel and messages of freedom and equality for North Africans:

Operation Tunisia

Operation Tunisia refers to the actions by internet group Anonymous during the Tunisian revolution.

Tactics

In their traditional manner; Anonymous launched a series of DDoS attacks against government websites. Additionally, Anonymous provided protesters with documents required to take down the incumbent government as well as distributing a care package, among other things, including Tor, and a greasemonkey script to avoid proxy interception by the government. The providing of information was considered by some a part of Operation Leakspin. They also aided in passing information about the protests in and out of the country.

Aftermath

At first Anonymous posted a video on YouTube declaring their intentions. Anonymous begun DDoS attacks. It wasn't long before multiple government websites in Tunisia were taken offline as a result of the attacks. Anonymous supplied protesters, through Tunisian blogger Slim Amamou, with anonymising software such as Tor. While the group did wage its online, a large-scale professional strikes by Tunisia's professional class of lawyers and teachers, culminating in the fleeing of President Ben Ali on January 14, 2011.

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