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One Woman’s Experience With The Lebanese “Cyber Crime Office”

June 18, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

Louisa Ajami wanted to report a hacked hotmail account:

…the soldier at the door in Adlieh told me I had to have an official complaint written up before I could enter and pointed me toward the bureaucrat who could do that for me: an old man sitting in a plastic chair under a tree across the street.

You just can’t make this stuff up.. 
 
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