A mainland China style digital dragnet is descending on Hong Kong. In the past month HK police have broken into the Facebook account of one politician, hung a camera outside another& #39;s house, and tried to phish the login details to Jimmy Lai& #39;s Twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/technology/hong-kong-national-security-law.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/2...

With the Nat Sec law biting, we& #39;re seeing more extreme tactics. Police pinned Tony Chung& #39;s head in front of his phone to trigger the facial rec. Then they held his finger to the phone& #39;s fingerprint scanner. Even tho neither worked, they seemed to break into his FB account later.

Agnes Chow& #39;s neighbors said a surveillance camera was set up by her doorstep. She shows how people are adjusting. She appointed a 2nd admin to her FB account, who worked with FB to shut it down after she was arrested. Here& #39;s her video tutorial to cybersec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7u9LxjJDtg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Finally there& #39;s Jimmy Lai. After he was arrested a message came into Next Digital using the right names of employees asking for Twitter logins to set up a new phone for him. They believe it was a phishing attempt by police to get into his account.

“The problem is this slows everything down, because now everyone is double checking: ‘Did you send this message? Did you send that?’ It never stops; it just never, ever stops,” said Mark Simon after Mr. Lai& #39;s arrest.

We all think of HK as a global financial hub, but it& #39;s also becoming something else: a land of internet fault lines, where China’s harsh techno-authoritarian rule collides with the open internet in a society and economy governed by rules that protect digital rights.