
Internet is world's 'greatest spying machine': Assange
• www.breitbart.comSpeaking to students at Britain's prestigious Cambridge University on Tuesday, the former computer hacker claimed that the Internet, particularly social networking sites such as Facebook, gave governments greater scope for snooping.
"There was actually a Facebook revolt in Cairo three or four years ago," Assange explained.
"It was very small... After it, Facebook was used to round up all the principal participants and they were then beaten, interrogated and incarcerated.