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Doris Lessing

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Kevin Rudd

In Indonesia, not even the NSA is listening

Global Scan

Government phone hacking is in the news all around the world, and now in Indonesia. The government there recently learned its prime minister’s cell phone was being tapped — but it wasn’t by the Americans. Rather, it was by the Australians.

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