[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report

[r.deibert at utoronto.ca]

Dear LibTech

I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report published today,  
authored by Morgan Marquis-Boire and entitled "Schrodinger?s Cat Video  
and the Death of Clear-Text."

The key findings are outlined below:

	?	Commercial network injection appliances are actively targeting  
Google?s YouTube and Microsoft?s Live services in order to install  
surveillance implants on targets across the globe.

	?	Documents indicate that a prototype for targeted surveillance  
network injection appliances sold to the governments of Oman and  
Turkmenistan was designed by CloudShield Technologies, a US Department  
of Defense contractor.

	?	This report reveals never before seen documentation on the  
operation of Network Injection appliances from both Hacking Team and  
FinFisher and provides source code for an early prototype of  
FinFisher?s FinFly ISP product.

A link to the full report is here:
https://citizenlab.org/2014/08/cat-video-and-the-death-of-clear-text/

The Washington Post has extensive coverage on the report, which can be  
found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/15/how-your-cat-video-addiction-could-be-used-to-hack-you/

Morgan Marquis-Boire has written an oped at The Intercept:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/15/cat-video-hack/

Relatedly, my "Open Letter" on behalf of the Citizen Lab to Hacking  
Team was published last week:
https://citizenlab.org/2014/08/open-letter-hacking-team/

Cheers
Ron

Ronald Deibert
Director, the Citizen Lab 
and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
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