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✴︎ blogNew Citizen Lab Report: Are the Kids Alright?
Today, the Citizen Lab is releasing a new report, entitled: “Are the Kids Alright? Digital Risks to Minors from South Korea’s Smart Sheriff Application.” South Korea is unique among all countries in having a legal mandate that requires parents whose minor children have mobile phone subscriptions to install a parental content filtering application. A powerful
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✴︎ blogOpen Letter to Hacking Team
Update: An open letter to Hacking Team following its statement on the Citizen Lab “Police Story” report August 8, 2014 Dear Mr. Vincenzetti and team, This letter is in response to a statement issued by Hacking Team that has recently come to our attention, concerning Citizen Lab’s report titled “Police Story: Hacking Team’s Government Surveillance
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✴︎ blogAn Internet Free and Secure
I was asked by the Dutch gov to co chair a working group for their next Freedom Online Coalition meeting in 2015. We have now put out our call for expressions of interest. This is an opportunity to have civil society input into cyber security discussions. I’ll do my best to make sure the case
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✴︎ blogBlack Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Finally, the day has arrived! My new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, is being published today. The official website for the book is here. Cory Doctorow wrote a review of Black Code for the Globe and Mail here. And there is an excerpt published in the National Post today. More excerpts
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TEDx Toronto
My TEDx Toronto talk has been posted. I discussed how there is a paradox today: as never before are we surrounded by so much technology, and, yet, as never before do we know so little about what goes on beneath the surface of that technology. I spoke about the Citizen Lab, and some of our
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✴︎ blogDistributed Security as Cyber Strategy
I wrote a paper for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute titled Distributed Security as Cyber Strategy: Outlining a Comprehensive Approach for Canada in Cyberspace. Canada recently issued a strategy for cyber security. I argue that the policy is thin on both commitments and specifics and left many issues unaddressed. The first part of my paper
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✴︎ blogTedXToronto
Looking forward to being a part of the TedXToronto event in October 25 2012 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, along with Shawn Micallef, Sonya JF Barnett, Heather Jarvis, and Joseph Cafazzo. Here is my video preview.
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✴︎ blogRSA Conference on Active Defense
I will take part in RSA Conference’s Special Forum on the Future of Cyber Security and Active Defense with fellow panelists Jim Dempsey, Vice President for Public Policy, Center for Democracy and Technology; Lt. Gen. (Ret) Kenneth Minihan, Managing Director, Paladin; and General Michael Hayden, Principal, Chertoff Group. Jim Lewis, Program Director, Center for Strategic
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✴︎ blogNational Post: Canada has a responsibility to protect Open Web
The National Post’s Matt Hartley wrote a profile of the Citizen Lab‘s work on Iran, and my views on what Canada could be doing to protect and preserve an open Internet. We are fortunate to collaborate with ASL19 and other Iranians on our research and other projects. Hartley’s piece also mentioned my keynote presentation at
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✴︎ blogCanadian Connection report and coverage
It has been a busy week, with the release of our report – The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada. The report covers a very delicate issue. We were very concerned about the findings as we came across them, and saw this as a case that could generate