Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogDown on the Baidu
Today, the Citizen Lab is releasing a new report, “Baidu’s and Don’ts: Privacy and Security Issues in Baidu Browser.” The report is the result of many weeks of careful analysis, led by Citizen Lab security researcher Jeffrey Knockel and co-authors Adam Senft and Sarah McKune and is part of Citizen Lab’s interest in analyzing the privacy and…
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✴︎ blogFitness Tracker Applications — Leaky, Insecure, and a Sign of the Times
Last week, the Citizen Lab in collaboration with Open Effect released a new report, “Every Step You Fake: A comparative analysis of fitness tracker privacy and security.” The report contains primarily the background, overview, methods and technical findings. A subsequent report will include the policy and legal analysis that the team is presently completing. Open…
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✴︎ blogCanada’s Netsweeper in Yemen
A new Citizen Lab report was published yesterday morning on information controls during the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen. The report shows in detail how a Canadian company’s technology, Netsweeper, is being used to filter critical political content, independent media websites, and all websites belonging to the Israeli (.il) top-level domain — a major expansion of Yemen’s…
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✴︎ blogNew Citizen Lab Report: Are the Kids Alright?
Today, the Citizen Lab is releasing a new report, entitled: “Are the Kids Alright? Digital Risks to Minors from South Korea’s Smart Sheriff Application.” South Korea is unique among all countries in having a legal mandate that requires parents whose minor children have mobile phone subscriptions to install a parental content filtering application. A powerful…
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✴︎ blogOpen Letter to Hacking Team
Update: An open letter to Hacking Team following its statement on the Citizen Lab “Police Story” report August 8, 2014 Dear Mr. Vincenzetti and team, This letter is in response to a statement issued by Hacking Team that has recently come to our attention, concerning Citizen Lab’s report titled “Police Story: Hacking Team’s Government Surveillance…
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✴︎ blogAn Internet Free and Secure
I was asked by the Dutch gov to co chair a working group for their next Freedom Online Coalition meeting in 2015. We have now put out our call for expressions of interest. This is an opportunity to have civil society input into cyber security discussions. I’ll do my best to make sure the case…
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✴︎ blogBlack Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Finally, the day has arrived! My new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, is being published today. The official website for the book is here. Cory Doctorow wrote a review of Black Code for the Globe and Mail here. And there is an excerpt published in the National Post today. More excerpts…
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TEDx Toronto
My TEDx Toronto talk has been posted. I discussed how there is a paradox today: as never before are we surrounded by so much technology, and, yet, as never before do we know so little about what goes on beneath the surface of that technology. I spoke about the Citizen Lab, and some of our…
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✴︎ blogDistributed Security as Cyber Strategy
I wrote a paper for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute titled Distributed Security as Cyber Strategy: Outlining a Comprehensive Approach for Canada in Cyberspace. Canada recently issued a strategy for cyber security. I argue that the policy is thin on both commitments and specifics and left many issues unaddressed. The first part of my paper…
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✴︎ blogTedXToronto
Looking forward to being a part of the TedXToronto event in October 25 2012 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, along with Shawn Micallef, Sonya JF Barnett, Heather Jarvis, and Joseph Cafazzo. Here is my video preview.