Tag: media coverage
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✴︎ blogHoodwinking Censors
Published in the Toronto Star May 7, 2006 The Toronto Star has a lengthy front page article on the Citizen Lab, including profiles of me, Nart, and Michael Hull, and Psiphon, the software we are currently developing to allow individuals to get around Internet content filtering by connecting to servers in non-censored countries. Funny photos.…
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✴︎ blogNY Times OpEd on OpenNet Initiative
There is a very interesting article by Xeni Jardin in today’s NY Times that references some of the recent findings of the OpenNet Initiative. Xeni points out that the issue of commercial filtering technologies goes far beyond China, and notes our findings concerning those technologies being used in several other countries, like Yemen, Iran, Saudi…
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✴︎ blogDes fissures dans la Web muraille de Chine (Le Monde)
Une technologie développée conjointement par plusieurs laboratoires de prestigieuses universités canadienne, américaine et anglaise pourrait arriver à détourner la censure numérique qui sévit dans plusieurs pays du monde, et notamment en Chine. Ce système est en phase d’achèvement au Canada, et pourrait rendre rapidement un peu d’ ” e-liberté ” aux quelque cent dix millions…
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✴︎ blogUSA Today and Radio Canada International
The debates over corporate responsibility when it comes to Internet filtering and surveillance are growing in leaps and bounds, thanks in part to the work of the OpenNet Initiative. Kevin Maney’s column in USA Today points out that the recent debates over Google and Yahoo in China are only the tip of the iceberg, with…
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✴︎ blog"Cracks in the Wall" Forbes Magazine/Psiphon/Citizen Lab
There is an interesting article in the recent issue of Forbes Magazine that talks about varioius circumvention strategies with respect to the Chinese firewall, including a brief mention of the Citizen Lab’s Psiphon circumvention software. It is nice to see Psiphon getting all of this attention before it is even done. We have a working…
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✴︎ blogNOW Magazine, Slashdot, and p2p Net
Some further news reports on Citizen Lab, Civiblog, and the OpenNet Initiative. NOW magazine, a Toronto weekly that covers primarily local issues from a grassroots perspective, has a nice article on our activites. And p2P Net has done a reprint of the Globe and Mail article from yesterday on our Psiphon. The story has also…
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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…
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✴︎ blogToronto SUN, Jane's Intelligence Review
There have been a couple of news items recently covering the work of the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative, and some of our other projects — from rather different ends of the media spectrum. The Toronto Sun‘s Mike Strobel did a great piece on his visit to the Lab and his impressions of our activities.…
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✴︎ blogToronto Hactivists Benefit From Grant for Internet Censorship Work
There is a news item today in the CBC news about the grant to the OpenNet Initiative from the MacArthur Foundation. The grant is going to our ONI partners, the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society atHarvard Law School to fund the core ONI activities over the next several years. We are all very excited…
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✴︎ blogNPR ON Point Radio Interview
I just did a radio interview with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s On Point radio show. The topic was Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. You can listen to it here. Timothy Wu of Columbia University Law School, Julien Pain of Reporters without Borders, and Declan McCullaugh of CNET were the other guests