My friends country is fastly moving to Dictatorship. Currently, I am not in that country but when I try to talk to my friends, they are afraid of talking to me via Whatsapp or Skype because without any logical reason, people are sent to prisons and they are afraid that the (written or verbal) conversations are eavesdropped by the government.

When it comes to my question, is it so easy for a country to eavesdrop the conversations on internet (all the internet service providers in the country are under their control), or is it just a conspiracy theory to terrify the people?

Tabnabbing is a phishing technique where a malicious web site changes its looks while the tab is inactive in order to trick the user into entering credentials.

This page is simultaneously a description and a demo. When you visit it, it shows a description of what tabnabbing is. When you then click another tab, it changes the tabs favicon and title to look like Gmail. Later, when the user wants to read her mail she goes to this tab thinking it is Gmail and enters her credentials.

Edit:

In this animation, you see that while I am reading SE, the tab that at first looked harmless changes in the background to look like Gmail. This way the page tries to trick me into submitting my credentials.


