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...Vietnam war produced astonishing stories and personalities. But nothing quite like TIME correspondent Pham Xuan An. An's secret life as a spy for Hanoi was not uncovered till long after the fall of Saigon. Until then, he was known simply as the brilliant contributor to TIME's coverage of the Vietnam war. An died Wednesday at the age of 78 in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. Stanley Cloud, TIME's Washington Bureau Chief from 1989 to 1993, worked with An from 1970 through 1972, including a period as Saigon Bureau Chief from the summer...
...given dissidents more ways to communicate with some privacy, authoritarian regimes have still found ways to censor websites, to monitor e-mail and to track down and jail online offenders. Still, in this game of electronic cat and mouse, the methods for evading roadblocks are evolving, and in Vietnam pro-democracy activists have hit upon a useful tool: Internet telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP...
...This technology, which allows users to make digital phone calls over the Internet, has become popular with consumers worldwide because it's a cheap way to phone. But in communist Vietnam?where authorities have effectively blocked access to pro-democracy blogs and websites, and e-mails are presumed to be scanned?VoIP has also proven a relatively secure means of political networking. There, activists use VoIP to contact each other, take part in conference calls and live debates, and post recorded voice messages via online forums available on the websites of VoIP providers such as PalTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype...
...over, while e-mail is stored indefinitely on servers, making it easier to trace the authors. Services like Skype also use encryption technology to scramble calls, so eavesdroppers can't decipher what's being said without a software "key" to decode the transmission. There's another benefit, too: in Vietnam's crowded Internet caf?s, it's tough for police to discern which of the mass of headphone-wearing youths might be talking about democracy and which are simply online gamers or teens chatting innocuously...
...with his brother Truong Quoc Tuan and a friend, after Huy revealed their identities to PalTalk members they thought were fellow democracy advocates; they now believe one may have been a police infiltrator. Within days of his release in July, Huy again started raising his voice online. He explained: "Vietnam doesn't have real democracy, so while I'm free I will continue to criticize...