Hack me if you can

摘要

ONLY a few hours after Azza Soliman, an Egyptian feminist, was arrested in December her colleagues received an email supposedly containing her arrest warrant. It was a sham-slickly designed bait to lure them into handing over their passwords. The messages, sent while Ms Soli-man was still being interrogated by police, were probably the work of the state security services. Researchers have documented nearly 100 similar hacking attempts to gain information from some of the country's most prominent NGOS and journalists.