Anonymous Hacks Government Websites
Anonymous Cambodia, a group of local computer hackers, has claimed responsibility for disrupting at least three government websites since Saturday and vowed additional hacking attacks to protest against July’s “unfair” election, according to the group’s Facebook page and Twitter account. Since Saturday, the hackers have attacked the websites of the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit, the Council of Legal and Judicial Reform and state-run television station TVK. … Cambodia is currently without a cybercrimes law, though Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said that the government last year drafted legislation to pursue hackers. “The law is against hacking. It is against someone who hacks or intrudes on both government and private data or websites,” Mr. Siphan said Thursday. The government has yet to release the draft, and when asked for a copy, Mr. Siphan said he could not turn it over because “it belongs to the government.” “The law will go through this term” of government, he said. NGOs are skeptical of the proposed law because they say it likely will be used by the government to infringe on freedom of expression online. “Online freedom has not yet been limited in Cambodia. It’s only limited to people where the Internet is not available. But given [the government’s] history, and they way they treat traditional media, it cannot be good,” said Ou Virak, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Mark Rasch, a former U.S. federal computer crime prosecutor and now a lawyer specializing in computer and high technology crime, said countries without a cybercrimes law usually prosecute offenses using existing laws. “Fraud, theft, abuse of trust, or destruction of property,” he said. ..
Joshua Wilwohl
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