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TOM-Skype Breach: Nart’s Recommendations to Skype

By on October 28, 2008

This is the fourth and final of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”. Having discussed some background to Nart’s research, the activities of the Citizen Lab and answers to Phil’s questions, Nart had a couple of recommendations for Skype going forward. As background, [...]

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TOM-Skype Breach: Answers to Phil’s Questions from 2006 SJ Post

TOM-Skype Breach: Answers to Phil’s Questions from 2006 SJ Post

By on October 21, 2008

This is the third of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”. Two weeks ago Phil republished an April 2006 Skype Journal post with about sixteen questions related to the TOM-Skype security breach discovered by Nart. My interview provided answers to several of these [...]

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TOM-Skype Breach: The Citizen Lab

By on October 16, 2008

This is the second of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”. After discussing the report itself and some of the follow up activity, we went on to talk about The Citizen Lab, its mission and its activities. From their own website they are [...]

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TOM-Skype Breach: Meeting the Primary Investigator

By on October 12, 2008

This is the first of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”. Last Tuesday afternoon I returned to a University of Toronto building I had last visited in its role as an engineering students’ residence in the mid-1960′s. Abandoned as a residence in the [...]

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Nart Villeneuve’s Q&A on TOM-Skype’s Firewall Breach

Nart Villeneuve’s Q&A on TOM-Skype’s Firewall Breach

By on October 5, 2008

Internet Censorship Explorer Nart Villeneuve has been getting lots of questions about his “Breaching Trust” report and issued a Q&A that answers some common questions. Initially he describes how he determined that messages containing key words were being uploaded to a web server. (The technologically curious can get the answer through accessing the link.) He [...]

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The Story Behind the Story: How a Canadian cracked the Great Firewall of China

The Story Behind the Story: How a Canadian cracked the Great Firewall of China

By on October 3, 2008

As a four time graduate of the University of Toronto, I am glad to see the atmosphere for investigative research is thriving at my alma mater. A researcher at their unique Citizen Lab, “focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics”, is responsible for uncovering the Tom-Skype [...]

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