<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">EU officials 'hacked' at Azerbaijan Internet Governance Forum</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/eu-officials-hacked-at-azerbaijan-internet-governance-forum-7000007093/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.zdnet.com/eu-officials-hacked-at-azerbaijan-internet-governance-forum-7000007093/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#961515;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Summary:</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif""> A spokesman for digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes says he and
one of her policy advisors have had their laptops hacked in Baku, which they
are visiting for a major internet policy conference. A day before, Kroes had
laid into her hosts for spying on activists.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#6c7376">By </span><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#6c7376"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/uk/david.meyer/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005399;text-decoration:none">David Meyer</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#6c7376"> | November
8, 2012 -- 09:05 GMT (01:05 PST)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">The laptops of two EU officials have apparently been hacked in Azerbaijan
during the Internet Governance Forum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">The officials both work for digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes, who
gave a speech at the forum on Wednesday in which she lambasted the Azeri
government for spying on activists online, and promised to promote tools for
helping journalists avoid surveillance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">"Great, now my Mac has been hacked," Kroes's
spokesman, Ryan Heath, </span><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"><a href="https://twitter.com/RyanHeathEU/statuses/266454748016820224"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005399;text-decoration:none">tweeted</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> on Thursday morning. "Also </span><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"><a href="https://twitter.com/MsProtonNeutron"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005399;text-decoration:none">@msprotonneutron</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> [policy officer Camino Manjon] — I wonder who
could have done that? #Azerbaijan."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"><a href="https://twitter.com/RyanHeathEU"></a> Great, now my Mac has been hacked. Also <a href="https://twitter.com/MsProtonNeutron" title="Camino Manjon">@<b>MsProtonNeutron</b></a> -
I wonder who could have done that? <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Azerbaijan" title="#Azerbaijan">#<b>Azerbaijan</b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">Heath subsequently </span><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"><a href="https://twitter.com/RyanHeathEU/statuses/266476918344384512"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005399;text-decoration:none">clarified</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> to ZDNet UK that the alleged hacking had taken
place in a hotel, rather than at the event itself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">"<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Hacked @ hotel rather than at
#IGF12. Someone else took over my personal MacBook. Can't determine more
yet," he wrote.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> Seriously? At
a conference about internet freedoms, among other things?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> Hacked @ hotel rather than at <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23IGF12" title="#IGF12">#<b>IGF12</b></a>.
Someone else took over my personal MacBook. Can't determine more yet. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is an annual event at which internet
policymakers from around the world convene for discussions with the technical
community, academics and other stakeholders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">This year's event comes less a month before the <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">World Conference on International Telecommunications </span>in
Dubai, at which global telecoms rules will be revised for the first time in
around 24 years. Some fear that governments could assume more control over the
internet in the new rules, although Kroes </span><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/no-need-for-un-to-take-over-internet-says-eu-digital-chief-kroes-7000003145/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005399;text-decoration:none">told ZDNet UK in August</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> that she opposed such a move.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/story/create/%3C%20a%20href=%22http:/europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-12-784_en.htm?locale=en%22%3E"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005399;text-decoration:none">Kroes's speech</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525"> on Wednesday was combative in tone. Describing
the internet as "the new frontier of freedom and a new tool to exercise
this freedom", she accused her hosts of breaking pre-Eurovision promises
to loosen their grip on free expression.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">"In this very country, we see many arbitrary restrictions on the
media," Kroes said. "We see the exercise of free speech effectively
criminalised. We see violent attacks on journalists. And we see activists spied
on online, violating the privacy of journalists and their sources. I condemn
this. The restrictions must end."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:#252525">Kroes referred to the European Commission's 'No Disconnect' strategy, which
involves giving online activists "technological tools… that help
journalists avoid surveillance and safeguard their right to privacy".</span></p>