profdeibert

Director @citizenlab, @munkschool, @uoft. OUT NOW: Chasing Shadows (

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

NEW @citizenlab report:

Member of 🇪🇺 Euro Parliamentary committee (#PEGA) tasked with investigating spyware abuses, @SteliosKoul himself hacked with Pegasus spyware 🔽

https://t.co/JUDWJLrWqQ

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

"The trial was designed to keep the models in a safe testing environment... But the models found a vulnerability that allowed them to escape.... Then they targeted Hugging Face because they inferred that the library...could hold clues."
https://t.co/Z738GscFsX

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives over reporting about Trump's Graft Jet from Qatar https://t.co/LVtgPY7nvl

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

How about starting with a new approach that doesn't involve threatening to invade and seize territory of your closest allies, routinely undertaking war crimes and violations of international law, and having graft-ridden oligarchs steering the ship?

[James A. Lewis @james_a_lewis]

The US needs to forge a new group of foreign policy experts to build a new approach to international relations, taking into account that the end of the American century doesn't mean the US isn't still first among equals. A first step is a better definition of national interest.

[The Citizen Lab @citizenlab]

Join the Citizen Lab in Calgary at the 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).

Senior researchers @jsrailton and Rebekah Brown will be speaking, and Citizen Lab researchers are presenting their analysis of censorship on Amazon. Register: https://t.co/OZr4UxL9GK

[The Citizen Lab @citizenlab]

WATCH: Last week, the European Parliament had a plenary debate on #spyware after Citizen Lab researchers found that a former MEP's phone was hacked with #Pegasus spyware.

The consensus: the crisis is getting worse.

@HNeumannMEP @saskiabricmont @ElenaKountoura @LukasSieperMdEP @danusenerudova

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

@TimothyDSnyder @wentword @munkschool @UofT Great thanks Tim 👍

[Thanasis Koukakis @nasoskook]

Co-Founder of Controversial Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport | OCCRP https://t.co/WFpAAMuGY0

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

Canada's 🇨🇦 proposed lawful access law (Bill c22) is so bad it has US Senators (like @RonWyden) worried it will create national security spying risks for Americans 🇺🇸!

[Hannah Neumann @HNeumannMEP]

The greatest threat of spyware isn’t what it does to our phones. It’s what it does to our democracy and our security.

I urge all my colleagues to get their phones checked!

#Spyware #Democracy #Security

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

Greek wiretapping victims sue spyware firm Intellexa for damages https://t.co/7TSxZZkc7e

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network

The probe corroborates @ICIJorg & @citizenlab findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.

https://t.co/bEpYEA1x31

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

EU 🇪🇺 urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP

Good overview our latest @citizenlab report and its growing impact 👇

https://t.co/DEvGSDTZZr

[Reuters @Reuters]

Greek wiretapping victims sue spyware firm Intellexa for damages https://t.co/nFj2EXDILA https://t.co/nFj2EXDILA

[Thanasis Koukakis @nasoskook]

Greek Spyware Scandal Reignites as Former PM Samaras Demands Supreme Court Probe https://t.co/yoRMN8aeNC

[Jon Penney @jon_penney]

I have a new OpEd in The @Guardian with Bruce Schneier (@Schneierblog) on the social chill of AI surveillance. We cite my new book #ChillingEffects to argue that if widely deployed, it will be corrosive to democracy & social progress. https://t.co/Uz2qc9Kwn8

[Vas Panagiotopoulos @criticalvas]

8 victims of Predator #spyware have filed civil lawsuits before the Athens Multi-Member Court of First Instance against Intellexa & 13 other individuals, each seeking €1 million in damages, according to a statement by their lawyer, @ZacKesses.

https://t.co/AzlAEbLsKd

[Access Now @accessnow]

Pegasus strikes again!

Access Now alongside more than 30 human rights orgs + individuals demand a full investigation into the hacking of @SteliosKoul, a Greek journalist and former Member of the European Parliament.

Read more:

https://t.co/rtZE890pW1

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

UPDATE:🇪🇺EU Parliament just voted to hold debate on spyware.

Following our @citizenlab report that MEP @SteliosKoul was hacked with #Pegasus while investigating spyware abuses.

Debate proposed by MEP @saskiabricmont. This Weds 7-8pm
https://t.co/pD8B1OmPYe

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

Joint Statement: Pegasus in the European Parliament, the EU Must Act Now - Center for Democracy and Technology https://t.co/ymaZaTf2g5

[Natalia Krapiva 👩🏻‍💻🕊 @natynettle]

Former MEP was hacked by the same gov behind the Pegasus attacks we exposed 2 years ago!

@citizenlab revealed that @SteliosKoul, former @EP_PegaInquiry member, was targeted by the same operator that hacked several Russian- & Belarusian-speaking journalists + activists

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