{"id":153,"date":"2011-09-06T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/2011\/09\/wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former.html"},"modified":"2015-08-22T00:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:09:52","slug":"wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime | Security | ZDNet UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cablegatesearch.net\/cable.php?id=06TUNIS2424&amp;q=microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 77, 153); text-decoration: none; \" rel=\"noopener\">a cable<\/a> sent by the US embassy in Tunis on 22 September, 2006, Microsoft was so keen to get the Tunisian government to drop its policy favouring open-source software that it agreed to set up a &#8220;program on cyber criminality&#8221; to cover training. The deal also entailed the company giving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/news\/compliance\/2011\/02\/01\/internet-freedom-worlds-strictest-regimes-40091619\/2\/\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 77, 153); text-decoration: none; \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tunisian regime<\/a>, headed by President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, the original source code for Microsoft software.The cable was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/news\/security\/2011\/09\/01\/wikileaks-blames-guardian-for-security-breach-40093813\/\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 77, 153); text-decoration: none; \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made public last week<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/hot-topics\/wikileaks-261856003\/\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 77, 153); text-decoration: none; \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikileaks<\/a> as part of a massive and largely accidental publication of unredacted US embassy messages. In it, embassy officials told Washington there was a risk the training could be used to further oppress the Tunisian people.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/news\/security\/2011\/09\/05\/wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former-tunisian-regime-40093837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More @ ZdNet:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a cable sent by the US embassy in Tunis on 22 September, 2006, Microsoft was so keen to get the Tunisian government to drop its policy favouring open-source software that it agreed to set up a &#8220;program on cyber criminality&#8221; to cover training. The deal also entailed the company giving the Tunisian regime, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,144,230],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"popular_posts_img":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Editor","author_link":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/author\/ttx\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"According to a cable sent by the US embassy in Tunis on 22 September, 2006, Microsoft was so keen to get the Tunisian government to drop its policy favouring open-source software that it agreed to set up a &#8220;program on cyber criminality&#8221; to cover training. 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