On Eurozine about the Cyberwars: "While the role of technology in the political struggle in Iran and elsewhere should not be overstated, it should not be underestimated either. The "next generation" controls with which authorities aim to manage the Internet mark a shift from heavy-handed filtering to sophisticated multi-pronged methods. Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski on the attempt to normalise the exercise of power in cyberspace."
Ron Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab (@citizenlab) at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. Rafal Rohozinski is the CEO of SecDev.cyber and Psiphon, and a senior research adviser and chair of the advisory council of the Citizen Lab. Together they have co-founded and are principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects, and both are co-editor (along with ohn Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain) of Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (MIT Press).
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