Re: [liberationtech] Baku attendees compromised
I really have a problem with Ryan Heath's allegations not being backed up by disclosure/evidence. I think it was not very diplomatic and undermines Neelie Kroes's good work recently done in Baku which consisted of evidence-based statements. I have just come back from Baku and have witnessed first hand some of the governments activities there (e.g. trying to stop dissemination of publications on freedom of expression in the country). While I do not discount at all the incident as a possibility, I think however such a blatant hack would be contrary to the legitimation strategies the Azerbaijani government was trying to pursue there. I look forward to further disclosure and evidence. I hope also the Azerbaijani government is not going to narrate Heath's allegations as being part of the "fiction" (in the words of an official in the closing ceremony) of foreign governments and NGOs operating there. Me and many others have asked him (via Twitter) for further evidence, as well as a description at least of the symptoms, but none is forthcoming. Let us focus more on Kroes's statements as well as the statements of Azerbaijani activists, e.g. http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/11/06/azerbaijan-open-letter-to-... On 10 November 2012 23:43, John Scott-Railton <john.scott.railton@gmail.com> wrote:
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