A Moroccan website that enabled Egyptians to get around their government's jamming of the Internet was brought down on Friday by a sophisticated cyber-attack, its managing director said.
"Someone got into the site about four o'clock this morning and destroyed its means of access to the global web," Francesco Landogna said.
The site Wall5 had set up a ghost portal which circumvented the virtual barriers put up by Egyptian authorities since the start of the massive demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak, a week ago.
Landogna said that the number of downloads of Wall5's censorship-busting programme had exceeded 200,000 by late Thursday. Algerian as well as Egyptian subscribers had used it.
Rejecting a chance attack by hackers, he said, "These were people with sophisticated tools who got into the server and wrecked it."
Landogna said it was impossible to tell where the attack had come from, but he thought it was outside Morocco.
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