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✴︎ blogRadio Canada International Interview
I recently did a radio interview with Radio Canada International&’s “MASALA CANADA with Wojtek Gwiazda.” Wojtek sent me an MP3 of the interview, which can be accessed here. In the interview, we discuss the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative, and the ONI Asia project, supported by IDRC Canada. Radio Canada International’s Masala Canada show can…
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✴︎ blogRadio Canada Une heure sur terre
Radio Canada’s “Une heure sur terre” did a very nice profile piece on the Citizen Lab recently. Here is a link to a stream of the program. Included are discussions about our research on the Russia-Georgia Cyberwar, Nart Villeneuve’s Skype Report and Psiphon.
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✴︎ blogTVO Big Ideas
I am scheduled to appear on TVO Big Ideas this weekend; details below. Hacking Back: The Battle for Human Rights Online TVO: Saturday and Sunday November 22 and 23, 2008, 4 PM Repeats Saturday and Sunday at 5 am. RON DEIBERT In this lecture, political science professor Ron Deibert looks at the issue of internet…
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✴︎ blogBreaching Trust
I am pleased to announce our release of a major investigative report, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform, written by Nart Villeneuve, Psiphon Fellow, the Citizen Lab, at the Munk Centre for International Studies, the University of Toronto. The full report can be downloaded here. John Markoff of…
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✴︎ blogAnnouncement: Greg Walton joins Citizen Lab as Senior SecDev Fellow
I am pleased to announce that Greg Walton will be joining the Citizen Lab. Greg Walton is the senior security researcher for ONI Asia, and the first SecDev fellow at the Citizen Lab. He is a graduate of the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford (International Relations and Security Studies), and holds an MSc…
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✴︎ blogDigital Wish List
Aired on CBC’s Spark with Nora Young, as part of their special election coverage You can listen to and watch the interview here. You can also download the MP3 of the interview here. The video of the interview is here: Digital Wish List: Ron Deibert from CBC Radio: Spark on Vimeo.
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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…