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✴︎ blogAl Jazeera’s “The Stream” Interview
I joined Al Jazeera’s The Stream via Skype to talk about a collective of pro-Assad hackers and online activists, who call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army. Our InfoWar Monitor Project has released several reports about the Syrian Electronic Army, which can be found here. See the Al Jazeera interview here.
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✴︎ blogSecuring Cyberspace – two videos
There are two video streams that came out on the same day yesterday, both on the topic of “Securing Cyberspace.” The first is a trailer that was put together (thanks to Eric Petecelli and team) on our “Securing the Cyber Commons: A global dialogue” event that took place over two days in March 2011. This…
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✴︎ blogSyrian Electronic Army: Disruptive Attacks and Hyped Targets
The Information Warfare Monitor just released a new blog report, “Syrian Electronic Army: Disruptive Attacks and Hyped Targets.” The report analyzes the ongoing computer network exploitation activities of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The report is a follow on to a prior report released last month: The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks…
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✴︎ blogCBC Dispatches Interview
I was a guest of Rick MacInnes-Rae’s CBC Dispatches. We discussed the Information Warfare Monitor‘s report on the Syrian Electronic Army by Citizen Lab senior fellow Helmi Noman, and the larger context of cyberspace controls and contests. You can listen to the show here.
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✴︎ blogHuffington Post: Cyber Security and Canadian Policy
I was asked to contribute a piece to the launch of Huffington Post Canada. My article addresses questions of cyber security that have been raised by President Sarkozy at the e-G8, and in particular what Canada could contribute in this area. The editors placed my article on the home page for a few hours, with…
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✴︎ blogMesh Keynote
I delivered a keynote presentation to the Mesh 2011 conference. Here is a pic of the event. The Financial Post’s Matt Hartley provided a good summary of my talk here.
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✴︎ blogRescuing the Global Cyber Commons: An urgent agenda for the G8 meeting in Deauville, France
As the world’s largest economies, western liberal-democratic countries have a critical strategic interest in sustaining cyberspace as an open and secure commons of information constituted around freedom of speech and access to information. They also stand to lose the most should it spiral into a hotly contested zone of crime, espionage, and warfare. What should…
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✴︎ blogCitizen Lab Wins Press Freedom Award for Defense of Internet
The Citizen Lab is the recipient of this year’s press freedom award of the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom (CCWPF), The 13th annual Press Freedom Award goes to a Canadian person or group who has defended or advanced the cause of freedom of expression. The Citizen Lab team, based at the Munk Centre for…
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✴︎ blogThe New Cyber Military Industrial Complex (Globe and Mail)
“There’s an arms race in cyberspace, and a massively exploding new cyber-industrial complex that serves it. Like all arms races before it, the growing tensions in cyberspace and the proliferation of tools and services that feed it create a climate of fear and insecurity. And as Samuel Coleridge once said, ‘What begins in fear usually…
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✴︎ blogNY Times (Room for Debate) Wikileaks Debate
In this feature of the New York Times Room for Debate, I give my take on the recent Wikileaks controversy. Also featured, Evgeny Morozov, Ross Anderson, James Bamford, and C. Fred Alford. Read it here from New York Times Room for Debate