Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogCBC Dispatches
CBC radio is currently focusing its programming around censorship, and as part of that effort I was interviewed on CBC Dispatches. My interview is archived here and the podcast can be downloaded here
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✴︎ blogBerkman Center at Harvard Lunchtime Talk and Radio Free Europe
I had the pleasure recently of giving a talk to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, home of many friends and colleagues of the OpenNet Initiative. My talk was about securing human rights online, focusing in particular on the psiphon project. You can see the entire talk here. And here…
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✴︎ blogNewsforge Article about Psiphon
An excellent article about psiphon in Newsforge. As the author says, “Psiphon is not designed to solve all secure Web browsing dilemmas. Rather, it is a means by which those in uncensored countries can assist specific individuals in censored countries access blocked Web content — without placing any technical (or personal security) burden on those…
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✴︎ blogEcommerce and Vancouver Sun
ecommerce on the ONI Vancouver Sun on Internet censorship in China
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✴︎ blogpsiphon media roundup
The psiphon launch and worldwide public release went very well. Thanks to my colleague Rafal Rohozinski at the University of Cambridge, and lead engineer Mike Hull, Anton, Eugene, Nart, Jane, Sarah, and James for working so hard and getting it out there. It has, and continues to be, a real Citizen Lab team effort. Thanks…
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✴︎ blogFar Eastern Economic Review essay
I wrote an essay for the Far Eastern Economic Review that can be accessed here. The article discusses some of of the analytical findings raised by the research of the OpenNet Initiative project, and discusses the potential implications of our psiphon censorship circumvention tool.
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✴︎ blogPsiphon Press Coverage
We have been fortunate to have a lot of interest in the upcoming release of our psiphon software. In an effort to archive some of the coverage, I am including some links here. BBC Reuters Register UK American Public Radio Future Tense WIRED blogs
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✴︎ blogWeb Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor
Published in the New York Times November 27, 2006 By CHRISTOPHER MASON TORONTO, Nov. 21 — Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or “hactivists,” have created the latest, and some say most advanced tool yet in allowing Internet users to circumvent…
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✴︎ blogWIRED and Macleans
There have been a couple of news items concerning research at the Citizen Lab. The first is a news item from WIRED News concerning the ongoing activities of the OpenNet Initiative. We have recently completed testing in nearly 40 countries worldwide (not the 50 the magazine claims) and our researchers gathered at Berkman Center for…