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Tibet taboo leads to cyberattacks on film crew
By Ellen Nakashima, WashPost, Published: March 28
The trouble began even before the American filmmakers set foot in the Tibetan region of China.
A member of their crew in India noticed that her laptop screen would flash occasionally — an unseen hand taking a screen shot of her computer. Her cursor would move around unbidden on her screen.
Sometimes her laptop abruptly logged her off.
Once the filmmakers got to the Tibetan region, their laptop was hacked, its operating system wiped out and a related Web site in Los Angeles deluged with so much traffic that it crashed.
The cyberattacks on the team led by filmmakers Christian Johnston and Darren Mann started nearly five years ago and continued for so long that they delayed completion of the documentary about Tibet, “State of Control.”
(More here.)
By Ellen Nakashima, WashPost, Published: March 28
The trouble began even before the American filmmakers set foot in the Tibetan region of China.
A member of their crew in India noticed that her laptop screen would flash occasionally — an unseen hand taking a screen shot of her computer. Her cursor would move around unbidden on her screen.
Sometimes her laptop abruptly logged her off.
Once the filmmakers got to the Tibetan region, their laptop was hacked, its operating system wiped out and a related Web site in Los Angeles deluged with so much traffic that it crashed.
The cyberattacks on the team led by filmmakers Christian Johnston and Darren Mann started nearly five years ago and continued for so long that they delayed completion of the documentary about Tibet, “State of Control.”
(More here.)
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