https://www.wired.com/2014/07/morgan-marquis-boire-first-look-media/ https://citizenlab.ca/2017/10/open-letter-sexual-assault/ In 2012, he and researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab were the first to identify Finfisher, a stealthy collection of spying tools sold by the British firm Gamma Group that they eventually tracked to command-and-control servers in 25 countries. Later that year he helped trace how a piece of software sold by the Italian firm Hacking Team was used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to spy on a political dissident beaten by thugs. Just last month he revealed new findings that showed how that company's tools have evolved to target iPhones, Android devices and other mobile targets. And in early 2013 Marquis-Boire and Citizen Lab researchers mapped the spread of surveillance and censorship tools sold by the Palo Alto, California firm Blue Coat to 61 countries, including Iran. In the detective work required to pin those stealthy spying incidents on repressive governments and Western companies, Marquis-Boire is "extraordinarily talented," says Ron Deibert, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab's director. "There are some people who are phenomenally adept at forensics, who have an intuitive sense of how to make connections through different pieces of evidence," he says. "Morgan has those skills...But what I very much appreciate about him is his passion for human rights."
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