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✴︎ blogOpenNet Releases Middle East and North Africa reports
We (the OpenNet Initiative released our Middle East and North Africa research reports today. Some early press from the report here. We have put up a very useful extended Q and A here. Among the findings of the report is evidence of the use of commercial filtering products in the region. One of the manufacturers,…
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✴︎ blogAnnouncing the GNI Monitor!
We are pleased to announce a new project this summer in the Citizen Lab, called the “Global Network Initiative Monitor” or “GNI Monitor” for short. The project’s mission statement can be downloaded here. The project will combine technical and contextual research methods to measure compliance of both participants and non-participants to the GNI principles, as…
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✴︎ blogThe Wild Wild Web – Canadian Lawyer Magazine
A few months ago when a Canadian research group exposed the GhostNet, a brazen cyber-espionage network, the story briefly made headlines. Most of us marvelled at the ingenuity and nefariousness of the alleged perpetrator, the Chinese government. Some may have momentarily fretted about implications for international security. But the man who helped break the GhostNet…
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✴︎ blogOttawa needs a strategy for cyberwar
National Post (comment) June 30, 2009 Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Recently, the Canadian envoy to Iran was called in and admonished by Iranian officials for contributing to the destabilitization of the regime because of support for social networking tools, like Twitter and Facebook. The envoy must have scratched his head in puzzlement. The Iranians’…
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✴︎ blogNPR Here and Now interview
I did an interview with NPR’s Here and Now about psiphon and The Use of Proxy Servers in Iran.
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✴︎ blogPsiphon, Iran, and OpenNet Initiative
There is a lot going on right now on so many exciting fronts. We at the OpenNet Initiative have released three major reports: An Asian regional overview, and country reports on China and Iran. We released these at the ONI Asia regional meeting in Penang Malaysia. Thanks to the ONI team for all of their…
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✴︎ blogONI Bulletin on China’s Green Dam Filtering Software
The OpenNet Initiative has released a bulletin entitled “China’s Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC.” You can read more about it here. Executive Summary A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software product, Green Dam, with the publicly stated intent of protecting…
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✴︎ blogResponse to Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan on NY Times
President Obama announced the US Cybersecurity strategy yesterday, after a lengthy review. The report can be found here. I was asked, along with Bruce Shneier, James Bamford, Gus Hosein, Mykko Hoppenin, and Marjorie Blumenthal, to give feedback for the New York Times forum.
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✴︎ blogHearsay Culture Interview
Dave Levine of Stanford University host’s a regular radio show called Hearsay Culture. I was a guest a while back and the show is archived here.
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✴︎ blogSummer of Psi
Inspired by Google’s Summer of Code, this year, Psi-Lab — a joint project of the Citizen Lab and Psiphon Inc — will organize the “Summer of Psi”, which aims to establish a rich and highly interactive set of communication and archiving tools and accompanying documentation to enable community participation in Psiphon open source development. Expect…