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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…
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✴︎ blogCitizen spy fights to uphold our rights
Vancouver Sun Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Daphne Bramham A professor from Vancouver says what was once an open global space is now being carved up, colonized and militarized. From TheVancouverSun In many countries, Ron Deibert would be considered a traitor or a terrorist. Under some circumstances, he might even be considered one in Canada.…
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✴︎ blogChina’s Overeager American Censors
Published on Forbes.com June 20, 2008 Practically every U.S.-owned search engine has caved to the Chinese government’s demands that they censor political Web sites in China. But none of them seem to agree on just what sites need censoring. Google, at times, blocks Chinese users’ access to the BBC while Yahoo! permits it. Yahoo! sometimes…
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✴︎ blogTestimony to US Congress
I am testifying to US Congress today, at the US China Economic and Security Review Commission. My testimony covers the research of the OpenNet Initiative on Internet censorship practices in China, the range and effectiveness of circumvention methods, including our own tool — psiphon, and the role of US and Western corporations in aiding and…
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✴︎ blogCBC National report on the Citizen Lab
On March 21, 2008, the CBC National ran a feature piece on the research and development activities of the Citizen Lab, including the ONI and psiphon. There are interviews with me, and with Nart Villeneuve. You can watch the piece here. The youtube version is here And here:
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✴︎ blogAccess Denied Review
Published in the Guardian Seth Finkelstein has written a thoughtful review of the OpenNet Initiative’s new book Access Denied in the Guardian. Seth says ” It’s a primer in methods and an atlas of studies. The first sections provide an analytical framework. Then prohibitions are examined across dozens of countries. The results show that far…
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✴︎ blogReview of Access Denied + BBC on psiphon
Reviewed in BBC.co.uk Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering challenges the long-standing assumption that the internet is an unfettered space where citizens from around the world can freely communicate and mobilise. In fact, the book makes it clear that the scope, scale and sophistication of net censorship are growing. “There’s been…
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✴︎ blogBBC The World Today and CBC The World at Six
There were two radio reports about various aspects of the Citizen Lab’s research and development activities yesterday. Clark Boyd did a report about the OpenNet Initiative’s new book, Access Denied on BBC’s The World Today. I have uploaded a version of that broadcast locally here Additionally, Eli Glasner did a report on the use of…