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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
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✴︎ blogCitizen Lab Recipient of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) 2010 Vox Libera Award
The Citizen Lab is proud and humbled by the announcement that we are the recipient of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) 2010 Vox Libera Award. The announcement stated “The Citizen Lab was selected for its dedication to free expression and access to information online. World leaders in the field of “hacktivism,” the Citizen…
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✴︎ blogInformation Warfare Monitor Report on Koobface
The Information Warfare Monitor (Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and The SecDev Group, Ottawa) announce the release of Koobface: Inside a Crimeware Network by Nart Villeneuve, with a foreword by Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski. There is a Globe and Mail story about the report here including a web commentary…
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✴︎ blogMasala Canada Radio Interview re: Rimcheck Project
I spoke to Masala Canada about the Information Warfare Monitor’s newly launched RIM Check project. (http://www.rimcheck.org/) Interview available here from Masala Canada
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✴︎ blogCBC The Current
I participated in an interview today on CBC’s The Current regarding Canada’s recently released Cyber Security Strategy. [i come in at the 14:40 mark]
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✴︎ blogScience Magazine review of Access Controlled
“The research collected in the volume is the product of a path-breaking interuniversity collaboration: the OpenNet Initiative. For the past five or so years, researchers around the world led by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society have been attempting to…
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✴︎ blogNY Times essay (Worse Than You Think)
In this New York Times Room for Debate discussion, I discuss the broader context around the recent Twitter hack, here The New York Times
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✴︎ blogCBC Current Panel on Nokia-Siemens Lawsuit
I was interviewed by CBC’s The Current on September 17 regarding Isa Saharkhiz’s lawsuit against Nokia Siemens Networks and the broader implications of cyber espionage. The radio clip also features a panel discussion with the son of the jailed journalist, Mehdi Saharkhiz, and Tony Rutkowski, Cybersecurity Rapporteur for the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union. Listen…