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✴︎ blogCitizen Lab — a hacker "grow op"
Wired News has a story about the history of hacktivism and the cDc, with some mention of the Citizen Lab as a “hacker grow-op.” Hacktivism and How It Got Here Michelle Delio 07.14.04 NEW YORK — Hacktivism isn’t found in the graffiti on defaced Web pages, in e-mail viruses bearing political screeds or in smug…
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✴︎ blogInternet Content Filtering in India
Internet Content Filtering in India: Variations in Compliance and Accuracy We have just released this bulletin on some recent Internet content filtering patterns in India. The collateral blocking of a terrorist website is definitely weird, but story here is the compliance issue.
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✴︎ blogNewsforge article about ONI Advisory
Another one, from Newsforge, about the OpenNet Initiative Advisory on the IBB/Anonymizer we just released. I must object to Lance Cotrell’s comments about Iranian monitoring and our analysis of the insecurity of the IBB/Anonymizer system. Does anyone really believe the IBB and/or State Dept has intelligence “on the ground” that determines how and when Iranians…
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✴︎ blogCBC's The Current on the OpenNet Initiative
CBC’s The Current did a profile of the OpenNet Initiative, which can be accessed directly from the site here or downloaded from our own archives here.
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Advisory 001
Here is the first OpenNet Initiative Advisory (001) on the “Unintended Consequences and Risks of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB’s Anonymizer Service in Iran.”
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✴︎ blogHarvard Crimson story about the ONI
The Harvard Crimson wrote a story about the OpenNet Initiative featured here. HLS Team To Study Internet Censorship Researchers at Harvard Law School are gathering empirical data on the censorship of internet content and are using it to develop software that can subvert filters.A handful of professors at the Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet…
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✴︎ blogOpen Source Conference
Citizen Lab is helping to sponsor the Open Source and Free Software Conference to be held May 9-11th at the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall.
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✴︎ blogAnnouncing The Open Net Initiative!
A new approach to university-based research striving to become the eyes and ears of digital censorship worldwide “The Open Net Initiative represents a new approach to university-based research,” says Cambridge University’s Rafal Rohozinski. “We fuse cutting-edge intelligence-derived techniques with a networked model of analysis that includes some of the brightest minds in this field –…
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✴︎ blogHacktivista Broadcast
My new documentary series Hacktivista, co-produced with Mike Downie, will air on TVOntario December 26th, 29th, and 30th at 8 pm.
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✴︎ blogTVO Diplomatic Immunity
I’ll be appearing on Diplomatic Immunity on TVOntario tonight, which airs on Sunday November 30th at 11 pm. Topic is Internet governance.