Here We Go Again

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 23:23:26 PDT 2017


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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