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Director @citizenlab, @munkschool, @uoft. RESET: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (House of Anansi: 2020) https://t.co/iEMwgTUZoR
Mar 24 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🇨🇦 Canada-based @Sandvine's credit rating downgraded by @moodysratings

The pain of US 🇺🇸 @CommerceGov sanctions on the firm for selling surveillance and censorship gear to authoritarian regimes:



h/t @jsrailton ratings.moodys.com/ratings-news/4…
Image In 2018, @citizenlab purchased a second hand Sandvine/Procera PacketLogic DPI middlebox, used it to develop fingerprints for network scanning, and discovered it was used to inject spyware in Turkey and redirect traffic in Egypt.

citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-tr…
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Feb 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: more #Pegasus spyware abuse discovered 👇

35 media workers and several human rights lawyers and activists confirmed infected or targeted in 🇯🇴 Jordan.

@accessnow @hrw @AmnestyTech @OCCRP and @citizenlab collaboration ⬇️ Among the victims are staffers at @hrw who had published reports critical of Jordan's human rights record.

See @josephmenn of @washingtonpost with coverage 👇

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Mar 27, 2023 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
BREAKING News: 🇺🇸 @POTUS @WhiteHouse issues Executive Order: limits federal government use of commercial #spyware from vendors that target US persons + facilitate human rights violations / transnational repression...
axios.com/2023/03/27/bid… The EO prohibits use from commercial spyware firms whose technology is used to target activists, academics, journalists and other members of civil society, or is used by states with a track record of systematic human rights violations
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… ImageImage
Jul 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It appears that some Spanish MEPs are trying to block the European Parliament spyware committee from a fact-finding trip to Madrid

...among them: Juan Ignacio Zoido Alvarez, who served as the Spanish *interior minister* from 2016-2018 🤔

politico.eu/article/pedro-… It is really remarkable to see among right-wing 🇪🇸 just how much effort is put into (very poor) attempts at discrediting the research (shooting the messenger), blocking & deflecting, and casting aspersions on victims...

...Instead of a serious independent investigation.
Jul 6, 2022 • 17 tweets • 11 min read
NEW: @apple announces #LockdownMode, a major change to iPhone security that promises to help high risk users + other actions to hold the mercenary spyware industry to account nr.apple.com/d2I3Q1s4s0

My thread w context & details 👇 The @citizenlab has been undertaking evidence-based research on targeted espionage against civil society for close to 15 years

citizenlab.ca/category/resea…
Feb 11, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
🇨🇦 academic "National Security Experts" downplaying the risks of military, LEA, intelligence-affiliated protestors because of inflated CV's, kooky beliefs and discredited punditry credentials are missing the point

A little training and knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Increasingly paranoid and combative language coming out of the protestors' "intelligence reports"

That's a seriously dangerous combination
Feb 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
With @navalny sentenced to prison in Russia, I'm reminded of our @citizenlab 2017 study, "Tainted Leaks," in which we documented a Russian-organized hack and leak operation meant to discredit @navalny citizenlab.ca/2017/05/tainte… 1/ We discovered that Russian operators who successfully phished @FT journalist @DavidSatter and @OpenSociety then took private documents, inserted false content (in blue below) to make it appear as if both were financially and otherwise supporting @navalny. They weren't.
Dec 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
NEW @citizenlab REPORT: "Running in Circles: Uncovering the Clients of Cyberespionage Firm Circles" by @citizenlab: citizenlab.ca/2020/12/runnin… by @billmarczak @jsrailton @sidnext2none @sienaanstis and me In this report, we focus on Circles, a surveillance vendor that sells SS7 exploits to government clients. Image
Sep 22, 2020 • 25 tweets • 17 min read
I hope everyone will pardon my interruption to the doom scrolling here for some personal celebratory news…. 1/25 Today’s the official launch for my new book, RESET: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (House of Anansi Press: 2020)! Thx to everyone @HouseofAnansi @cbcideas @MasseyCollege Feels great to finally hold it in my hands! 2/25 Image
Jan 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Thread re: Bezos Incident: 1. Like the UN Special Rapporteurs, we believe that serious allegations like these require further investigation and look forward to learning more about this case as it is made public.
Jan 9, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Fresh Out: My new article "Three Painful Truths About Social Media", lead essay with the latest issue of @JoDemocracy muse.jhu.edu/article/713720 The first painful truth is that the social-media business is built around personal-data surveillance, with products ultimately designed to spy on us in order to push advertising in our direction....