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Hackers set out to “anonymise” online data during the 2011 uprising to keep demonstrators in the loop for protests.
A core group of young activists coordinated protests that rocked the country in the earliest days of the Arab Spring.
Hackers set out to “anonymise” online data during the 2011 uprising to keep demonstrators in the loop for protests.
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