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According to the Thanh Nien Daily, a Vietnamese digital magazine, Cyber-police is “100 % certain” about the suspect’s guilt who, on his side, keeps denying the charges claiming that the evidences are “not objective and unclear” .
According to the authorities, anyway, there’s no doubt about Mr. Huy Remy implication in such crime, indeed the investigation was carried out in collaboration with the telecom, information and trade ministries and a network security company (the BKIS) that have been able to prove that the DoS attacks came from Huy’s home computer. On this proposal the suspect declared that he doesn’t have any clue of how the DoS attack would have been traced back to his computer but he hypothesized that unknown hackers could have hijacked the computer and used it for the attack. The spread out of illicit materials on the website www.gmetal.net was charged as additional imputation against the suspect, but no further explications were given on this point. In recent years, according to the Global Internet Policy Initiative Vietnam (GIPI Vietnam), the Internet has made a break-through development in the country , with more than 12.5mil Internet subscribers, nine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and a growth rate of ADSL subscription of 300% per year. But in spite of this encouraging setting, Vietnam is still considered by “Reporters without Borders” a country where freedom of expression on the Internet has been suppressed. Moreover, a study by the OpenNet initiative shows that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam regulates access to the Internet by its citizens extensively, through both technical and legal means. Regulations and Filtering techniques are expanding day by day, together with the popularity of the Internet: the access to political and religious contents is blocked and there’s a strong censorship on sexually explicit materials. Anyway, Vietnam focuses mainly on blocking access to sites related to topics that challenge the state's political orthodoxy, such as those dealing with political dissidents, democracy, or the Vietnam Human Rights Act – a proposal that was suggested in the United States Congress.
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The chief of Vietnamese Anti-Hi-tech Criminal Department stated on Friday that a man called Nguyen Quang Huy, as known as Huy Remy , was arrested for staging DoS attacks on a popular e-market website (Chodientu.com). The attack took place on September 23, when users trying to enter the website were redirected to another web page reporting very unflattering declarations about the director of Peacesoft Company, the company that runs the website.
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