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Ron Deibert

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I am the founder and current Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where I'm also a political scientist.

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert@ioc.exchange

· 3mo ago

Political scientist here 👋 Can everyone please stop using "nation-state" when referring to state-based cyber espionage. There are no "nation-states" in the world. Nearly every state is made up of multiple "nations". Even Iceland and North Korea have minority nations. A nation is a form of collective identity. A "state" is a government that is sovereign over a particular territory, recognized by other states in the international system. I don't know where or how this started. People use it because it sounds big and impressive. The big giant "Nation State". Drives me crazy. Rant over

Ron Deibert @rondeibert@ioc.exchange

· 3mo ago

NEW @citizenlab@mastodon.social report: Member of Euro Parliament committee tasked with investigating spyware abuses himself hacked with Pegasus spyware https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/

The Citizen Lab

Espionage Against the European Parliament: Member of Committee Investigating Spyware Hacked with Pegasus - The Citizen Lab

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations.