Note: The report cites
(a) Nick Hopkins, China Suspected of Facebook Attack on Nato's Supreme Allied Commander; Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west. Guardian, Mar 11, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ ... ck-nato?INTCMP=SRCH
(Admiral James Stavridis; "Nato said it wasn't clear who was responsible for the spoof Facebook pages, but other security sources pointed the finger at China")
(b) Jason Lewis, How Spies Used Facebook to Steal Nato Chiefs’ Details; NATO'S most senior commander was at the centre of a major security alert when a series of his colleagues fell for a fake Facebook account opened in his name - apparently by Chinese spies. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/techn ... chiefs-details.html
("Last night officials at SHAPE, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, reluctantly confirmed that its commander had been targeted. They refused to be drawn on the origin of the security breach although other senior security sources confirmed that it had been traced to China")
Note: 2012 report of the Enemies of the Internet. Reporters Without Border, Mar 12, 2012. http://en.rsf.org/internet.html
(Pakistan, China, Morocco, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, Tunesia, Syria, Kyrgystan, Canada, Thailand; Bahrain, Egypt, Malaysia, United States (Due to SOPA; reporters arrested or roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests; Old law used in controversial new way to get information for WikiLeaks investigation; New rules with limited protection for Net Neutrality about to take effect; Department of Justice wants reporter to betray source but spares one of its own whistle-blowers; Twitter forced to hand over personal data on subscribers to government; NGO gains access to Guantanamo documents but double standard still prevails; FCC adopts ineffective rules on Net Neutrality), Belarus, Republic of Congo, Maldives, Kazakhstan, European Union (due to impending Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), Burma, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Mexico, Chile, Sri Lanka, Ukraine; Italy (Investigative reporters and websites again threatened by proposed “gag law”; Italian agency to review Internet filtering project), Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, France (European Union’s Telecoms Package incorporated into French law; Amid growing criticism, HADOPI reports on measures to combat digital piracy; Internet companies challenge decree requiring them to store personal data; Opposition legislators refer security law to Constitutional Council; Amendment will allow government agency to use private sector to monitor the Internet), UK (Concern that social networks to be targeted as BlackBerry helps British police identify rioters), Brazil (Local blogger and politician gunned down in Rio Grande do Norte, motive unclear), Twanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameron, Uruguay, Indonesia, Cambodia)