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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…
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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…