“There is an arms race in cyberspace and it’s caught up with Iran,” says Ron Deibert

January 25, 2012

Iran’s dissidents head online but the regime is there, waiting for them

Article by Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter

Published On Tue Jan 24 2012, The Toronto Star

Iran’s Green Revolution geeks are taking their struggle to cyberspace, but the clerical regime’s censors are already there — and gunning for them.

“There is an arms race in cyberspace and it’s caught up with Iran,” says Ron Deibert, who heads University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which monitors the digital media’s intersection with human rights.

“It’s not the only government to increase Internet surveillance and censorship, but it has ambitions to engage in more sophisticated surveillance of network traffic. We can see that the Iranians are developing fine-grained techniques.”

Read the full article at The Star.