Arabia storm of protest began in Tunisia - and the Internet played a crucial role. At the last moment the tumbling regime tried to suppress the rebellion by systematically robbed Facebook passwords. But a programmer designed a counter-weapon. With the book "Out of mankind" of 1927 has created an epic work of Stefan Zweig and an approach to the dawn of the media age.
The very first headline reads "The world minute from Waterloo, it's about the moment when Napoleon saw his Waterloo. World minute - what a word, what a promise. The media world needs these moments which are a symbol because it seems to explain everything in its compression, whether they reflect reality or are compacted and transformed as in branch.
In the current frenzy event in North Africa has a digital world minute - first written in the magazine "The Atlantic" - too little attention. The question is not of the shutdown of the Internet in Egypt, in which the participating communication companies have played an inglorious role, to say nothing litigable.
Meant a great moment, that foreplay is 10.000 km from North Africa begins in a California office. Joe Sullivan with the title of chief security officer at Facebook, on their profile photo he fails to just smile at the attempt. He studied law and worked as a prosecutor. Prior to joining the social network he built in the U.S.
Justice Department for the current FBI director Robert Mueller a special department with focus on hacking and copyright infringement. Sullivan, a politically savvy techno man, that is, for example, in a hearing before the House of Representatives in the summer of 2010, well. He skillfully staged Facebook as a catalyst for the digital security of youth.
Only the lack of help the administration prevented the company from being more secure. A very innovative approach. Every month, over 30 billion photos, movies, Postings At Christmas 2010 could be team reports from Tunisia. There are Facebook pages have been hacked and deleted, in particular those which have to do with the upcoming protests.
The corrupt regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has run down the country. Youth unemployment is a long time over 30 percent, and the anger channeled on Facebook. The government controls the network as well as technically savvy rigid, many sites are blocked. YouTube is reached in Tunisia since the end of 2007 no more, but can on Facebook, films and upload photos out even better.
Between the internal messages piling on "technical irregularities" in Tunisia. Sullivan's team begins to make inquiries, but initial investigations revealed no abnormalities. In particular, the data on IP addresses, which can detect tampering often appear normal. The searches are ongoing.
Facebook, with its estimated 100,000 servers is a digital monster, every month more than 30 billion photos, movies, managed postings of its users. In Tunisia, the social network end of 2010 final into a communication platform of the protests. Within two months, more than 300,000 Tunisians log on again on Facebook - with four million people with network access.
The regime steals the passwords of the entire country on after almost two weeks of intensive investigations, 5 January 2011 recognizes Sullivan, what is taking place for an unbelievable task at this moment in Tunisia: The regime steals the passwords of the entire country. Directly to the servers of the ISP software is installed, reads out the passwords and forwards them.
A so-called man-in-the-middle attack of this magnitude and urgency was hitherto unknown. Sullivan finds himself in a situation in which it can decide its actions on the political destiny of a country. The term is "Facebook revolution" appears pretentious and exaggerated, but undoubtedly the access of the repressive apparatus of the Tunisian private data have far-reaching consequences.
Most at risk are displayed, which is often a log and, since then the password is transmitted and can be read. Tunisia is a quarter of users in Internet cafes online, among the rebellious young people are probably much more. In the engine room of Facebook is the first question is whether we should even respond to this unique process.
The lawyer Sullivan opts for a technical answer: A general accordance with the terms and conditions of Facebook unauthorized third party is attacked Facebook's safety systems, which necessarily requires a response. But which one? And how quickly an adequate approach is feasible? At this time, let the news from Tunisia guess that is one every hour and are human lives at stake.
Sullivan tells his team to allow only encrypted connections from Tunisia. But this measure can be overcome if one has physical access to the computers of the provider. Sullivan's world Minute - recalls an ultimately political decision Perhaps Sullivan in that moment his boss. In October 2010, said Mark Zuckerberg, that would all industries "in a social way" re-thought.
He means that social relationships change all industries and technologies. The solution of the Tunisian problem for which decides Sullivan breathes this spirit. Five days after the discovery of the attack Facebook implemented a simple but ingenious query. Before a user can log in Tunisia, he must identify a handful of friends with photographs.
This will make it even with the stolen password almost impossible for the regime to take over an account. The risk that the private data of hundreds of thousands may be used against them, is averted. This is the victory of social technology on non-social and the world minute of Joe Sullivan.
Four days later fled dictator Ben Ali of Tunisia. The social networks have probably played more of a catalytic role in the success of the revolution, intensive research revealed serious indications that it existed even before Facebook and Twitter revolutions. Spied on by a communication system, the revolt would fail but certainly can.
Exactly at this point, begin the questions, the consequences of the operations in Tunisia should have. What is in repressive countries forced to Facebook's real name? Facebook itself has the obligation to protect users from their states? Is the social network is now more than one company, namely the infrastructure of a digital public? And finally, as a consequence of the events in Egypt - is not the uncensored, uncompromised access to the Internet and its platform has become a human right that should be enshrined in the UN Human Rights Charter? These questions must be answered - and at least the last one in the affirmative.
The very first headline reads "The world minute from Waterloo, it's about the moment when Napoleon saw his Waterloo. World minute - what a word, what a promise. The media world needs these moments which are a symbol because it seems to explain everything in its compression, whether they reflect reality or are compacted and transformed as in branch.
In the current frenzy event in North Africa has a digital world minute - first written in the magazine "The Atlantic" - too little attention. The question is not of the shutdown of the Internet in Egypt, in which the participating communication companies have played an inglorious role, to say nothing litigable.
Meant a great moment, that foreplay is 10.000 km from North Africa begins in a California office. Joe Sullivan with the title of chief security officer at Facebook, on their profile photo he fails to just smile at the attempt. He studied law and worked as a prosecutor. Prior to joining the social network he built in the U.S.
Justice Department for the current FBI director Robert Mueller a special department with focus on hacking and copyright infringement. Sullivan, a politically savvy techno man, that is, for example, in a hearing before the House of Representatives in the summer of 2010, well. He skillfully staged Facebook as a catalyst for the digital security of youth.
Only the lack of help the administration prevented the company from being more secure. A very innovative approach. Every month, over 30 billion photos, movies, Postings At Christmas 2010 could be team reports from Tunisia. There are Facebook pages have been hacked and deleted, in particular those which have to do with the upcoming protests.
The corrupt regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has run down the country. Youth unemployment is a long time over 30 percent, and the anger channeled on Facebook. The government controls the network as well as technically savvy rigid, many sites are blocked. YouTube is reached in Tunisia since the end of 2007 no more, but can on Facebook, films and upload photos out even better.
Between the internal messages piling on "technical irregularities" in Tunisia. Sullivan's team begins to make inquiries, but initial investigations revealed no abnormalities. In particular, the data on IP addresses, which can detect tampering often appear normal. The searches are ongoing.
Facebook, with its estimated 100,000 servers is a digital monster, every month more than 30 billion photos, movies, managed postings of its users. In Tunisia, the social network end of 2010 final into a communication platform of the protests. Within two months, more than 300,000 Tunisians log on again on Facebook - with four million people with network access.
The regime steals the passwords of the entire country on after almost two weeks of intensive investigations, 5 January 2011 recognizes Sullivan, what is taking place for an unbelievable task at this moment in Tunisia: The regime steals the passwords of the entire country. Directly to the servers of the ISP software is installed, reads out the passwords and forwards them.
A so-called man-in-the-middle attack of this magnitude and urgency was hitherto unknown. Sullivan finds himself in a situation in which it can decide its actions on the political destiny of a country. The term is "Facebook revolution" appears pretentious and exaggerated, but undoubtedly the access of the repressive apparatus of the Tunisian private data have far-reaching consequences.
Most at risk are displayed, which is often a log and, since then the password is transmitted and can be read. Tunisia is a quarter of users in Internet cafes online, among the rebellious young people are probably much more. In the engine room of Facebook is the first question is whether we should even respond to this unique process.
The lawyer Sullivan opts for a technical answer: A general accordance with the terms and conditions of Facebook unauthorized third party is attacked Facebook's safety systems, which necessarily requires a response. But which one? And how quickly an adequate approach is feasible? At this time, let the news from Tunisia guess that is one every hour and are human lives at stake.
Sullivan tells his team to allow only encrypted connections from Tunisia. But this measure can be overcome if one has physical access to the computers of the provider. Sullivan's world Minute - recalls an ultimately political decision Perhaps Sullivan in that moment his boss. In October 2010, said Mark Zuckerberg, that would all industries "in a social way" re-thought.
He means that social relationships change all industries and technologies. The solution of the Tunisian problem for which decides Sullivan breathes this spirit. Five days after the discovery of the attack Facebook implemented a simple but ingenious query. Before a user can log in Tunisia, he must identify a handful of friends with photographs.
This will make it even with the stolen password almost impossible for the regime to take over an account. The risk that the private data of hundreds of thousands may be used against them, is averted. This is the victory of social technology on non-social and the world minute of Joe Sullivan.
Four days later fled dictator Ben Ali of Tunisia. The social networks have probably played more of a catalytic role in the success of the revolution, intensive research revealed serious indications that it existed even before Facebook and Twitter revolutions. Spied on by a communication system, the revolt would fail but certainly can.
Exactly at this point, begin the questions, the consequences of the operations in Tunisia should have. What is in repressive countries forced to Facebook's real name? Facebook itself has the obligation to protect users from their states? Is the social network is now more than one company, namely the infrastructure of a digital public? And finally, as a consequence of the events in Egypt - is not the uncensored, uncompromised access to the Internet and its platform has become a human right that should be enshrined in the UN Human Rights Charter? These questions must be answered - and at least the last one in the affirmative.
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