Tag: Citizen Lab
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✴︎ blogBreaching Trust
I am pleased to announce our release of a major investigative report, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform, written by Nart Villeneuve, Psiphon Fellow, the Citizen Lab, at the Munk Centre for International Studies, the University of Toronto. The full report can be downloaded here. John Markoff of…
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✴︎ blog6 Questions with Ron Deibert
Published in Canadian Business What is the greatest challenge currently facing Citizen Lab and what are you doing about it? More here
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✴︎ blogAccess Denied review: IEEE Spectrum
“In the dot-com heyday of the ’90s and early 2000s…there was a myth that the Internet can’t be controlled,” says Ronald Deibert, a researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. “There was some mysterious, magical property associated with it that will route around censorship.” The most exhaustive study yet of Internet censorship—Access Denied: The…
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✴︎ blogEveryone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide — NEW RELEASE
I am pleased to announce that we have finished the Citizen Lab’s latest output, Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide and also available for download here This guide, which is intended for the non-technical user, provides tips and strategies on how to by-pass content filters worldwide. It is now in English but…
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✴︎ blogWIRED and Macleans
There have been a couple of news items concerning research at the Citizen Lab. The first is a news item from WIRED News concerning the ongoing activities of the OpenNet Initiative. We have recently completed testing in nearly 40 countries worldwide (not the 50 the magazine claims) and our researchers gathered at Berkman Center for…
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✴︎ blogBBC on Psiphon
There has been a few news items recently concerning some of our projects at the Citizen Lab. The BBC’s The World had a report on developments in Iranian censorship of the Internet, giving special attention to our soon-to-be-released (December 1st) software project, psiphon. The interview was with the Citizen Lab’s director of technical research, Nart…
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✴︎ blogGlobe and Mail article about Psiphon and Citizen Lab
Yesterday there was a good piece in the Globe and Mail about the Citizen Lab’s latest software project, called Psiphon. Psiphon is a circumvention technology that works through social networks of trust. Psiphon is funded by a generous grant from the Open Society Institute, and benefits from our collaborative relationships with the OpenNet Initiative and…