Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogAccess Controlled book website (and review)
We have a new website for the ONI’s latest book, Access Controlled, which can be found here. We also have our first review, by Andy Greenberg of Forbes.
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✴︎ blogToward a Cyber Security Strategy (Vanguard)
Ron Deibert, “Toward a Cyber Security Strategy,” Vanguard (March/April 2010), pp.10-11.
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✴︎ blogCivil Society and Democracy in Iran conference
I participated in the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics Civil society and Democracy In Iran workshop, held 14-15 May 2010 at the University of Toronto. I was participating in the panel on “Exploring the Youth Movement in Iran,” and spoke about the challenges of cyberspace controls for youth activism in and outside of Iran…
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✴︎ blogHarvard-MIT Joint Seminar Explorations in Cyber International Relations
I am in Boston for a presentation to the Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar Explorations in Cyber International Relations at MIT. The title of my presentation is “The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: From Militarization to Arms Control.”
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✴︎ blogIPSI 2010 Research Symposium
I am participating in the IPSI 2010 Research Symposium at the University of Toronto. The theme of the conference is “Developing a Trusted Cyber Infrastructure for Canadians.” I will be speaking about our research on cyber espionage (although the organizers gave me the curious title for my talk of “Detecting and disabling botnets.” (As an…
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✴︎ blogIDRC Webcast – The Potential of Open Development for Canada and Abroad
I participated in a live webcast and panel, organized by IDRC, on “The Potential of Open Development for Canada and Abroad,” in Ottawa, May 5th, 2010. Also on the panel were Michael Geist, Sunil Abraham, Anita Gurumurthy, and Yochai Benkler. The panel was hosted by Jesse Brown. We discussed the concept of “openness” in the…
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✴︎ blogNew IWM Report: Shadows in the Cloud
The Information Warfare Monitor/ (Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and the SecDev Group, Ottawa) and the Shadowserver Foundation announce the release of Shadows in the Cloud: An investigation into cyber espionage 2.0. FULL REPORT.
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✴︎ blogCNN: Google Denies Youtube Outage Speculation
“I think many people are, understandably, looking for China to take some unique and extraordinary technical measures to ‘punish’ Google,” said Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. From CNN
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✴︎ blogIndex on Censorship: Cyber Wars
Citizens, states and corporations are battling for online space. What happened to the dream of global communication? Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski report. From Index on Censorship
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✴︎ blogCNN China Spat with Google won’t affect relations with U.S.
Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre, which studies the intersection of digital policy and human rights, said Google’s move didn’t come as a surprise. “It’s become unsustainable for Google to operate in this environment,” he said. “They’ve made a decision that the risks are too great for…