Havana Times posted an article on February 23, 2017, titled Cyber Attacks in Cuba. Below are some key highlights:
- What we’re referring to in this phrase, more than anything else, is our inventiveness to find a solution to everyday problems, alternatives to get us out of tough situations; because we don’t give in and we are “hard to kill”.
- Precisely because of the profit we want to get out of everything, a new undeclared, read illegal, self-employed professional has popped up, according to what detractors of extra-institutional work label it. It takes place “behind the curtain”: the connector / connection sharer enables interested people to surf the web via his own account on the Nauta platform for a lower price than the rate officially fixed by the supplier (ETECSA) – the only gateway available in Cuba for these purposes, outside of some state institutions companies and education centers.
- How does this work? Well, the facilitator person activates their account, which they have to pay 1.50 CUC per hour for, to create and share a new WIFI point, from their own device, which they can connect various internet users to, who are previously contacted by their helpers, and who are only charged 1 CUC for the same amount of time.
- Suddenly the marathon of requests left, right and center begins as part of an aggressive campaign of deliberate or random messages, until we see that somebody, on the other side of the Internet, feels sorry for the scarce telephone credit on the account, and contribute to making funds available from the aforementioned telephone company which, by the way, should note a significant swelling of their coffers per month.
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