#CitizenLab director warns cyber industry about US #authoritarian descent | TechCrunch

Ahead of his talk, #Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what he describes as a “descent into a kind of fusion of tech and #fascism ,” and the role that the Big Tech platforms are playing, and “propelling forward a really frightening type of collective #insecurity that isn’t typically addressed by this crowd, this community, as a #cybersecurity problem.”
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

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A proposito di #Pegasus della #NSO, ricordiamo il targeting di Ahmed #Mansoor:
"Il dissidente da un milione di dollari: iPhone Zero-Days di NSO Group usato contro un difensore dei diritti umani degli Emirati Arabi Uniti" di Ron #Deibert su #CitizenLab
https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/
The Million Dollar Dissident: NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender - The Citizen Lab

Ahmed Mansoor was targeted by NSO Group, an Israel-based “cyber war” company that sells Pegasus, a government-exclusive “lawful intercept” spyware product.

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