Tag: Publications
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✴︎ blogTracking GhostNet
Dear Friends and Colleagues Please find below a link to Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, the second major report from the Information Warfare Monitor – a joint project of the SecDev Group (Ottawa) and the Citizen Lab (Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto). Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network This…
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✴︎ blogWeb 2.0 Presidency (Canada Watch Paper) and KMDI Lecture
I recently wrote a short discussion piece for York University’s here, called the “Web 2.0 Presidency,” which can be downloaded here. Additionally, I recently gave a talk to the KMDI called “Leveling the Playing Field for Citizen Intelligence,” which can be viewed here.
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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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✴︎ 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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✴︎ blogFar Eastern Economic Review essay
I wrote an essay for the Far Eastern Economic Review that can be accessed here. The article discusses some of of the analytical findings raised by the research of the OpenNet Initiative project, and discusses the potential implications of our psiphon censorship circumvention tool.
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✴︎ blogONI Releases Belarus Internet Watch Report
The OpenNet Initiative today released “The Internet and Elections: the 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus.” The report presents the findings of ONI’s effort to monitor the Internet during Belarus’ recent presidential elections. Amidst fears that the authoritarian regime of President Aleksander Lukashenka was going to close down Belarus political cyberspace during the elections, ONI testing…
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✴︎ blogInternet Filtering in Yemen. Yet Another Western Filtering Story
We (the OpenNet Initiative) have just released our new report on Internet filtering in Yemen. Two things to note about this report. First, the Yemen report is the first that we are releasing in simultaneous English and Arabic translations. It is important to us to have an impact among the constituencies that matter most to…
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✴︎ blogChina Web Registration Regulation OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 11
The OpenNet Initiative has just released a new bulletin on China’s Web registration regulations. These new regulations add yet additional threads to the country’s web of constraints on freedom of speech. By requiring citizens to register their blogs and websites, and shutting down the sites of those who do not comply, the Chinese authorities are…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative has released our report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia. The press release can be found here. Here is the blurb: Drawing on open sources and a detailed year-long technical investigation, ONI research describes Tunisia’s aggressive targeting and blocking of on-line content, including political opposition Web sites, human rights groups, and sites that…