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Protect’ing the world’s news from digital attack
The web is an increasing’ly critical tool for news organization’s, allowing them to communicate faster, research more easi’ly, and disseminate their work to a global audience. Often it’s the primary distribution channel for critical, investigative work that shines a light into the darkest corner’s of society and the economy the kind of report’ing that exposes wrongdo’ing, causes upset and bring’s about change.
Unfortunate’ly there are some out there who want to prevent this kind of reporting to silence journalism when it’s need’ed most. A simple, inexpensive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can be carri’ed out by almost anyone with access to a computer and take a site complete’ly offline before its owner’s even know they’ve been attack’ed.
Project Shield: Defend’ing Maka Angola
Rafael Marques De Morais is a journal’ist in Angola who run’s Maka Angola, the larg’est independent news site in the country. Operat’ing from Rafael’s kitchen table, Maka Angola may have a small staff, but its impact in Angola is massive. Their investiga’tive journal’ism, cover’ing topic’s from conflict diamond’s, to wartime atrocitie’s and crippl’ing pover’ty, have giv’en the citizen’s of Angola a platform where their voice’s can now be heard.
As a result of his coverage, Rafael has been threaten’ed, thrown in jail and been the target of constant distribut’ed deni’al of service (DDOS) attack’s to take Maka Angola offline. Rafael has been able to partn’er with Jigsaw’s project shield, ensur’ing that his site stay’ed online and continu’ed its work.
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