ones who benefit from this attack are the authorities." She also said, “I would not rule out the possibility that this act was committed by the secret services, with the aid of hackers or pirates based in Tunisia or abroad." The Web-based newsletter Tunis News and a blog run by a judge (TunisiaWatch) has been subject to similar attacks. Tunisia did not have specific laws to regulate online broadcasting. As a result, a group of journalists exploited this and launched Tunisia's first Internet radio station, Radio 6, on 10 December 2007 to mark the 59th anniversary of the World Declaration of Human Rights. Filtering during the Ben Ali regime Web filtering in Tunisia was achieved through the use of a commercial software program, SmartFilter, sold by U.S.-based company Secure Computing. Because all fixed-line Internet traffic passed through facilities controlled by ATI, the government was able to load the software onto its servers and filter content consistently across Tunisia's eleven ISPs. Tunisia purposefully hid the filtering from Internet users by displaying the standard 404 “File Not Found” error message, which gives no hint that the requested site is being blocked. A transparent proxy processed every HTTP request sent out and filtered out sites based on host names. Empirical evidence showed that NetApp hardware was used to implement the controls and NetCache. The OpenNet Initiative carried out tests in Tunisia using the ISPs Planet Tunisie and TopNet. Similar to 2006-2007 test results, 2008-2009 testing revealed pervasive filtering of Web sites of political opposition groups such as: Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberty (www.fdtl.org) Al-Nadha Movement (www.nahdha.info) Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (www.albadil.org) Democratic Progressive Party (pdpinfo.org) Also blocked were Web sites run by opposition figures such as activist Moncef Marzouki and Web sites that contain oppositional news and politics such as: www.nawaat.org www.perspectivestunisiennes.net www.tunisnews.com www.tunezine.com Web sites that publish oppositional articles by Tunisian journalists were also blocked. For example, ONI verified the blocking of the French daily Libération Web site in February 2007 because of articles by Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik critical of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali appeared on the site. Also blocked were Web sites that criticize Tunisia's human rights record. These include the web sites of: Amnesty International (www.amnesty.org) Freedom House (www.freedomhouse.org) Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org and www.rsf.fr) International Freedom of Expression eXchange (www.ifex.org) the Islamic Human Rights Commission (www.ihrc.org) the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (www.hrinfo.org) Although