It’s no secret that some nations often censor information that is shared with the public. They block access to Internet sites with information or openness that they have deemed sensitive, to national security issues or otherwise. What may be less well-known is how often those government measures are averted. In the case of Syria, most social networking sites, like Facebook, are blocked by the government. However, as the attached article explains, young Syrians often get around such censorship by hacking into other computers. As Robert Worth of The New York Times writes: “Foreign proxy server numbers are traded among young people like baseball cards.” While this may lead to positive civil rights among youth in Syria, as depicted in this article, it also highlights the difficulty in tracing cyber attacks.
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