Article 1Z7HP EFF asks court to let American sue Ethiopia for hacking his computer and rounding up his friends

EFF asks court to let American sue Ethiopia for hacking his computer and rounding up his friends

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Cory Doctorow
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Since 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been representing "Mr Kidane," an Ethiopian-born US citizen whose computer the Ethiopian government hacked while he was living in DC, in order to extract the identities of his contacts in Ethiopia and target them for violent human-rights-abusing reprisals over their democratic opposition to the country's ruling dictatorship. (more")

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