"They're using the same weaponry, the same arsenal-indiscriminately," said Citizen Lab director Ronald Deibert.ĭeibert's study draws on four years of research with Tibet Action and nine other cooperating civil society groups. And the report says that those behind the compromises are the same hackers responsible for high-profile attacks on major multinationals and Western governments. A major study published Tuesday by Internet watchdog Citizen Lab shows that it and other civil society organizations have been penetrated by cyberspies, many of them linked to China. There's little doubt that groups like Tibet Action need protection. "It's cheesy, but it's memorable," said Freya Putt, a Vancouver-based activist. The Internet safety slogan, one of several messages championed by digital security group Tibet Action Institute, is an example of how human rights defenders are seeking creative ways to protect activists from electronic espionage. "Attachment can lead you to all sort of trouble and we Buddhists believe that non-attachment alone can lead you to happiness," 30-year-old monk Jamyang Palden told The Associated Press at a cafe in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, before giving the philosophy its Information Age twist: "We have to learn to be suspicious of email attachments."
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