Author: Ron
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✴︎ blog6 Questions with Ron Deibert
Published in Canadian Business What is the greatest challenge currently facing Citizen Lab and what are you doing about it? More here
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✴︎ blogA New Breed Of Hackers Tracks Online Acts of War
Washington Post Wednesday, August 27, 2008 “Hacktivists” Update Their Mission By Kim Hart Washington Post Staff Writer TORONTO — Here in the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a new breed of hackers is conducting digital espionage. They are among a growing number of investigators who monitor how traffic is routed through countries, where…
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✴︎ blogExperts: Internet filtering and censorship rife
Published on CNN.com August 21, 2008 LONDON, England (CNN) — Believe the conspiracy theories — out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet. The recent conflict between Georgia and Russia has highlighted many of the issues at play with Internet filtering, as its increasing use by…
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✴︎ blogSoftware can bypass China’s “Great Firewall” but hard to get inside country
Two years ago the Citizen Lab released a program called Psiphon, which allows users in countries such as China and Iran to circumvent their governments’ Internet censorship. The free software uses computers outside the censoring country — known as proxies — to fetch web pages and send them back over encrypted connections. The technique is…
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✴︎ blogLongtime Battle Lines Are Recast In Russia and Georgia's Cyberwar
Published in the Washington Post Thursday, August 14, 2008 By Kim Hart Washington Post Staff Writer “In terms of the scope and international dimension of this attack, it’s a landmark,” said Ronald J. Deibert, director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab…. “International laws are very poorly developed, so it really crosses a line into…
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✴︎ blogRussia-Georgia Cyberwar and Chinese Internet Censorship
Several projects that I am involved in are bubbling with activity right now. The Information Warfare Monitor Project has been going overtime monitoring the Russia-Georgia cyberwar. We are issuing notices and posting news items as we come across them, and intend on issuing a detailed report soon. Greg Walton, the editor of the IWMP, has…
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✴︎ blogThe Looming Destruction of the Global Communications Environment
Published on Publius.cc Ask most citizens worldwide to identify the most pressing issue facing humanity as a whole and they will likely respond with global warming. However, there is another environmental catastrophe looming: the degradation of the global communications environment. The parallels between the two issues are striking: in both cases an invaluable commons is…
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✴︎ blogCitizen spy fights to uphold our rights
Vancouver Sun Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Daphne Bramham A professor from Vancouver says what was once an open global space is now being carved up, colonized and militarized. From TheVancouverSun In many countries, Ron Deibert would be considered a traitor or a terrorist. Under some circumstances, he might even be considered one in Canada.…
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✴︎ blogChina’s Overeager American Censors
Published on Forbes.com June 20, 2008 Practically every U.S.-owned search engine has caved to the Chinese government’s demands that they censor political Web sites in China. But none of them seem to agree on just what sites need censoring. Google, at times, blocks Chinese users’ access to the BBC while Yahoo! permits it. Yahoo! sometimes…
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✴︎ blogTestimony to US Congress
I am testifying to US Congress today, at the US China Economic and Security Review Commission. My testimony covers the research of the OpenNet Initiative on Internet censorship practices in China, the range and effectiveness of circumvention methods, including our own tool — psiphon, and the role of US and Western corporations in aiding and…