Operation Tunisia refers to the actions by internet group
Anonymous
Anonymous may refer to:
* Anonymity, the state of an individual's identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown
** Anonymous work, a work of art or literature that has an unnamed or unknown creator or author
* Anonym ...
during the
Tunisian revolution.
Activities
Anonymous began DDoS attacks and multiple government websites in
Tunisia
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were soon taken offline as a result of the attacks. 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
Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:
Places
* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain
* Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city
* Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano
* Tor Bay, Devon, England
* Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
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, and a greasemonkey script to avoid proxy interception by the government.
The providing of information was considered by some a part of
Operation Leakspin
Anonymous is a decentralized virtual community. They are commonly referred to as an internet-based collective of hacktivists whose goals, like its organization, are decentralized. Anonymous seeks mass awareness and revolution against what the orga ...
. They also aided in passing information about the protests in and out of the country.
Some Anonymous members in the #OpTunisia channel were Tunisians, one of them called 'slim404', whose real name was
Slim Amamou
Slim Amamou ( ( ar, سليم عمامو, Slīm ‘Amāmū; born 1977) is a Tunisian blogger and a former Secretary of State for Sport and Youth in the transitional Tunisian government of early 2011. He resigned from the role in the week of 25 M ...
, a Tunisian blogger. He aided in passing software between Anonymous and protestors. Amamou was arrested on Jan. 6, 2011. He was later released from jail and went on to become the
secretary of state for sport and youth, he resigned in May to protest the
transitional government's censorship of the web.
See also
*
Tunisian Revolution
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in T ...
References
External links
* https://www.anonymoustunisie.com/ Website of Anonymous TN
Tunisia
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Internet vigilantism
2011 in Tunisia
Tunisian Revolution
Anonymous (hacker group)
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