Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine November 19 to November 25 2012

'The Hackers of Damascus' provides chilling evidence that the very tools lauded as helping rebels unseat dictators during the Arab Spring are now being ruthlessly used against those rebels by government agents to reveal names and detailed information from hard drives, emails, Facebook, etc. that could not be obtained previously through torture. Syria's government is leading this new use of social media,' after first ending its ban on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Efforts by rebels to block government access via using servers that encrypt content, identities and locations of machines used worked at first, but soon became unusable because the government blocked access to those sites.