Tag: china
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✴︎ blogA World Without Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xiaobo died of cancer last week. A veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and one of the authors of the Charter 08 manifesto advocating for democratic reform, Liu was China’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner. In spite of Liu’s advocacy for non-violent change, Chinese authorities sentenced Liu in 2009 to eleven years’ imprisonment…
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✴︎ blogMore Than Meets the Eye
Every day we hear warnings not to open attachments, click on links, or enter our credentials into websites that do not look trustworthy. But what if they do look legit? How do we tell? Our latest report shows not only the lengths to which an espionage operation will go to fool users, but it also…
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✴︎ blogWe Chat (But Not about Everything)
Imagine if your favourite social media application silently censored your posts, but gave you no information about what topics are censored. Imagine if everything seemed fine as you posted message after message and image after image, for days on end with no issues, but then occasionally one of your posts would simply not appear without…
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✴︎ blogCNN China Spat with Google won’t affect relations with U.S.
Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre, which studies the intersection of digital policy and human rights, said Google’s move didn’t come as a surprise. “It’s become unsustainable for Google to operate in this environment,” he said. “They’ve made a decision that the risks are too great for…
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✴︎ blogChina’s Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy
Published in Canadian International Council by Ron Deibert Canada should lead global effort to counter Internet censorship and cyber-espionage in China and elsewhere, new CIC paper argues.
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✴︎ blogGoogle, China, and the coming threat from cyberspace
Published in the Christian Science Monitor By Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Cyberspace attacks are set to increase. Here’s why – and here’s what we can do to stop them. The recent cyberespionage attacks on Google and that company’s subsequent announcement that it would reconsider its search engine services in China gripped the world’s focus…
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✴︎ blogNY Times Room For Debate – Can Google Beat China
More Than a Tech Problem For years, innovative solutions to sidestep Internet filters have plagued Internet censors. Rebellious kids, hoping to sneak a peek around parental controls, have come up with some of the best of these ideas. Others are highly sophisticated open-source systems tended to by brainy PhD.’s and caffeine-fueled programmers.
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✴︎ blogGoogle, China and a wake-up call to protect the Net (Globe and Mail comment)
By Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Action is needed at the global level to ensure that cyberspace doesn’t slip into a new dark age Google’s announcement that it had been hit by cyberattacks from China and that it’s reconsidering its services in that country has smacked the world like a thunderclap: Why the drastic…
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✴︎ blogSome Facts about the Incident at the IGF Egypt
1. We were told that the banner had to be removed because of the reference to China. This was repeated on several occasions, in front of about two dozen witnesses and officials, including the UN Special Rapporteur For Human Rights, who asked that I send in a formal letter of complaint. 2. Earlier, the same…
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✴︎ blogONI Bulletin on China’s Green Dam Filtering Software
The OpenNet Initiative has released a bulletin entitled “China’s Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC.” You can read more about it here. Executive Summary A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software product, Green Dam, with the publicly stated intent of protecting…