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Ronald Deibert
Personal blog · deibert.citizenlab.orgsecuritypolitics
Ronald Deibert's personal blog at deibert.citizenlab.org covers security and politics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ronald Deibert's blog for Citizen Lab research on targeted digital attacks and spyware, such as NSO Group's iPhone zero-days and the Baidu Browser privacy and security issues.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Director, The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
What Hacker News says?
Related: > That a country would expend millions of dollars, and > contract with one of the world’s most sophisticated cyber > warfare units, to get inside the device of a single human > rights defender is a shocking illustration of the serious > nature of the problems affecting civil society in > cyberspace. This report should serve as a wake-up call > that the silent epidemic of targeted digital attacks > against c…
Comment linking /2016/08/disarming-a-cyber-mercenary-patching-apple-zero-days/
on “NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender”Submitted What Lies Beneath China’s Live-Streaming Apps? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionProfessor Deibert is highly sensitive to labeling and deliberately chose and insists on denying the use of the bare term "hacker" to categorize Citizen Lab activities, instead preferring terms such as "hacktivism", self-styling himself as a "hacktivist", and his team as "researchers" in interviews and his blog[1]. [1] https://deibert.citizenlab.org/
Comment linking /
on “Interview with U. of Toronto professor and counterespionage hacker Ron Deibert”Intro/Overview: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/2016/02/down-on-the-baidu/
Comment linking /2016/02/down-on-the-baidu/
on “Baidu’s and Don’ts: Privacy and Security Issues in Baidu Browser”