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✴︎ blog"Cracks in the Wall" Forbes Magazine/Psiphon/Citizen Lab
There is an interesting article in the recent issue of Forbes Magazine that talks about varioius circumvention strategies with respect to the Chinese firewall, including a brief mention of the Citizen Lab’s Psiphon circumvention software. It is nice to see Psiphon getting all of this attention before it is even done. We have a working…
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✴︎ blogNOW Magazine, Slashdot, and p2p Net
Some further news reports on Citizen Lab, Civiblog, and the OpenNet Initiative. NOW magazine, a Toronto weekly that covers primarily local issues from a grassroots perspective, has a nice article on our activites. And p2P Net has done a reprint of the Globe and Mail article from yesterday on our Psiphon. The story has also…
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✴︎ blogGlobe and Mail article about Psiphon and Citizen Lab
Yesterday there was a good piece in the Globe and Mail about the Citizen Lab’s latest software project, called Psiphon. Psiphon is a circumvention technology that works through social networks of trust. Psiphon is funded by a generous grant from the Open Society Institute, and benefits from our collaborative relationships with the OpenNet Initiative and…
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✴︎ blogToronto SUN, Jane's Intelligence Review
There have been a couple of news items recently covering the work of the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative, and some of our other projects — from rather different ends of the media spectrum. The Toronto Sun‘s Mike Strobel did a great piece on his visit to the Lab and his impressions of our activities.…
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✴︎ blogToronto Hactivists Benefit From Grant for Internet Censorship Work
There is a news item today in the CBC news about the grant to the OpenNet Initiative from the MacArthur Foundation. The grant is going to our ONI partners, the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society atHarvard Law School to fund the core ONI activities over the next several years. We are all very excited…
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✴︎ blogChina Google Search Compare
In an effort to tailor its services to the requirements of China’s Internet filtering regime, Google announced last week that it had created a special version of its search engine for the China market, Google.cn. Our OpenNet Initiative team put together a neat little search comparison tool that you can access here that allows you…
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✴︎ blogUniversities to Study Net Censorship, Surveillance
Published in The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by Andrew Mayeda A University of Toronto research lab and its partners have landed $3 million U.S. to study Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. The money will go to the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project among Harvard Law School, Cambridge and Oxford universities, and University of…
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✴︎ blogNPR ON Point Radio Interview
I just did a radio interview with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s On Point radio show. The topic was Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. You can listen to it here. Timothy Wu of Columbia University Law School, Julien Pain of Reporters without Borders, and Declan McCullaugh of CNET were the other guests
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✴︎ blogCitizen Lab Hiring
We are going to be hiring programmers and software developers for several new phases of research and projects. Below is the first advertizement. Please circulate widely. Application window closes Jan 30th. ————- POSITION SUMMARY Software Engineer Citizen Lab Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto As a key member of the Citizen Lab Development…
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✴︎ blogNart Villeneuve in First Monday
Citizen Lab and ONI Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve has a great article in the most recent issue of First Monday on the Filtering Matrix Well done Nart!!