Books
Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (Editors) Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (Editors) Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).
Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain (Editors) Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).
Ronald J. Deibert Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Guides
Citizen Lab. (2007). Everyone’s Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship. Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab. (2007). Everyone’s Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship (Burmese Translation). Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab. (2007). Everyone’s Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship (Russian Translation). Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab Reports
Citizen Lab. (2011). The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada. Citizen Lab
Villeneuve, N. (2008). Search Monitor Project: Toward a Measure of Transparency. Citizen Lab Occasional Paper #1
Citizen Lab / Canada Centre Reports
Citizen Lab. (2011). Casting a Wider Net: Lessons Learned in Delivering BBC Content on the Censored Net. Citizen Lab
Information Warfare Monitor Reports
Information Warfare Monitor reports can also be found on the IWM website.
Villeneuve, N. (2010). Koobface: Inside a Crimeware Network
Information Warfare Monitor and Shadowserver Foundation (2010). Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating cyber espionage 2.0
Information Warfare Monitor. (2009). Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network
Villeneuve, N. (2008). Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform. JR01-2008
Articles, Book Chapters, and Associated Outputs by Citizen Lab Principals and Associates
Deibert, R., Palfrey, J., Rohozinski, R. and Zittrain, J. “Access Contested: Toward the Fourth Phase of Cyberspace Controls,” in Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, (MIT Press, 2011). Co-editor with John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain.
Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Contesting Cyberspace and the Coming Crisis of Authority,” in Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, (MIT Press, 2011). Co-editor with John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain.
Villeneuve, N. and Crete-Nishihata, M. “Control and Resistance: Attacks on Burmese Opposition Media,” in Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, (MIT Press, 2011).
Deibert, R. and Crete-Nishihata, M. “Blurred Boundaries: Probing the Ethics of Cyberspace Research“. Review of Policy Research, 28, 5 (September 2011), pp. 531-537.
Kathuria, K. “Bypassing Internet Censorship for News Broadcasters”. Paper presented at the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI ’11), San Francisco, CA. 8 August 2011.
Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Liberation vs Control: The Future of Cyberspace,” Journal of Democracy, 24, 1 (October 2010), pp. 43-57.
Deibert, R. “Blogging Dangerously,” in Index on Censorship, Volume 39 and Number 4, Page 88-92, 2010.
Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Risking Security: The policies and paradoxes of cyberspace security,” in International Political Sociology, Volume 4 Issue 1, Pages 15 – 32, 2010.
Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Control and Subversion in Russian Cyberspace,” in Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace, (MIT Press, 2010). Co-editor with John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain.
Deibert R. and Rohozinski, R. “Beyond Denial: Shaping Cyberspace,” in Access Controlled: The shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace, (MIT Press, 2010). Co-editor with John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain
Deibert, R. (2010). China’s Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy, Canadian International Council China Papers Number 7, February 2010
Deibert, R. and Rohozinski, R. “Undercover of the Net,” in Anne Clunan and Harold Trinkunas, (eds.) Ungoverned Spaces? Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty (forthcoming Stanford University Press: 2010)
Deibert R. “Protect the Net: The Looming Destruction of the Global Communications Environment,” in Mark Kingwell and Patrick Tunnel, (eds.) Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space, (Wilfed Laurier Press, 2009)
Deibert, R. “The Geopolitics of Internet Control: Censorship, Sovereignty and Cyberspace,” in Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics, New York: Routledge, 2008. Online version here
Deibert, R. “The Virtual Absence of Malice: Cyber Security and Threat Politics,” review of Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US efforts to secure the information age, Routledge Press, 2008, forthcoming in International Studies Review
Deibert, R. “Black Code Redux,” in Megan Boler, ed. Tactics in Hard Times, (MIT Press, 2008).
Deibert, R. & Rohozinski, R. (2008). “Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet.” In Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, ed. Deibert R., Palfrey, J., Rohozinski, R., Zittrain, J. MIT Press.
Deibert, R. “Between Essentialism and Constructivism: Harold Innis and World Order Transformations,” in The Toronto School of Communication Theory: Interpretations, Extensions, Applications. Edited by Rita Watson and Menahem Blondheim, University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Deibert R. and Villeneuve, N. (2005). Firewalls and Power: An Overview of Global State Censorship of the Internet. Human Rights in the Digital Age. Eds. Mathias Klang and Andrew Murray. Portland, Or.: GlassHouse.
Deibert, R. “Deep Probe: The Evolution of Network Intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security, Volume 17, No 1, 2004.
Rohozinski, R. “‘Secret Agents’ and ‘Undercover Brothers’: The Hidden Information Revolution in the Arab World”, 2004.
Deibert, R. “Deep Probe: The Evolution of Network Intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security, Volume 17, No 1, 2004.
Deibert, R. “Black Code: Censorship, Surveillance, and Militarization of Cyberspace,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2003.
Deibert R. & Stein J. (2003). “Social and Electronic Networks in the War on Terror,” in Robert Latham, (ed.) Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between IT and Security, New York: Free Press
Rohozinski, R. (2003). “Bullets to Bytes: Reflection on ICT and ‘Local’ Conflicts,” in Robert Latham, (ed.) Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between IT and Security, New York: Free Press.
Deibert, R. “Black Code: Censorship, Surveillance, and Militarization of Cyberspace,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2003.
Deibert, R. “Dark Guests and Great Firewalls: Chinese Internet Security Policy,” Journal of Social Issues, (2001) 58, 1: 143-158.
Deibert, R. “Unfettered Observation: The Politics of Earth Monitoring From Space,” in Harry Lambright, (ed.) Space Policy for the 21st Century, (NY: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
Deibert, R. “Hyper-Realities of World Politics: Theorizing the Communications Revolution,” in Evan Potter, (ed.) Cyber-Diplomacy: Managing Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003).
Deibert, R. “Civil Society Activism on the World Wide Web: the Case of the anti-MAI Lobby,” in David R. Cameron and Janice G. Stein, (eds.) Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and the State, (Toronto: UBC Press, 2003).
Deibert, R. “The Politics of Internet Design: Securing the Foundations for Global Civil Society Networks,” in Stephen Coleman, (ed.) The E-Connected World: Its Social and Political Implications, (McGill University Press, 2003).
Deibert, R. “Circuits of Power: Security in the Internet Environment,” in J.P. Singh and James N. Rosenau, (eds.) Information Technologies and Global Politics: the Changing Scope of Power and Governance, (NY: Suny Press, 2002), pp. 115-142.
Deibert, R. “Dark Guests and Great Firewalls: Chinese Internet Security Policy,” Journal of Social Issues, (2001) 58, 1: 143-158.
Deibert, R. “Neo-Medievalism,” in R. J. Barry Jones, (ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, June 2001.
Deibert, R. “International Plug n’ Play? Citizen Activism, the Internet, and Global Public Policy,” International Studies Perspectives, (Vol. 1, No. 3, 2000), pp. 255-272.
OpEds and Comments
Deibert, R., “Cyber Security: Canada is Failing the World,” The Huffington Post Canada, May 26, 2011.
Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, “The New Cyber Military Industrial-Complex,” The Globe and Mail, March 28, 2011.
Deibert, R., The Post-Cablegate Era, The New York Times, December 11, 2010.
Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Meet Koobface, Facebook’s evil doppelgänger, The Globe and Mail , November 12, 2010.
Deibert, R., Worse Than You Think, The New York Times, September 22, 2010.
Deibert, R., Cyberspace Confidential, The Globe and Mail, August 6, 2010.
Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Breaking Up Dark Clouds in Cyberspace, Globe and Mail, April 6, 2010.
Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Google, China, and the coming threat from cyberspace, Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 2010.
Deibert, R., More than a Tech Problem, New York Times, January 16, 2010.
Deibert, R., Google, China, and a Wake Up Call to Protect the Net, Globe and Mail, January 14, 2010.
Deibert, R., Smarter Sleuthing can Save our Online Privacy, Globe and Mail, November 2, 2009.
Deibert, R. and R. Rohozinski, Ottawa Needs a Strategy for Cyberwar, National Post, June 30, 2009.
Deibert, R., Arms Control in Cyberspace, New York Times, May 29, 2009.
Deibert, R., The Internet: Collateral Damage, Globe and Mail, January 1, 2003.
OpenNet Initiative Outputs
ONI outputs can also be accessed at the ONI’s website.
The most recent ONI research on Internet filtering in specific areas can be found in the ONI’s country and regional profile sections.
Bulletins & Advisories
ONI issues bulletins and advisories to attract attention to recent events and recently-released documents and research concerning Internet filtering.
- Bulletin: China’s Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC , June 2009
- Bulletin: Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma, November 2007
- China Tightens Controls on Internet News Content Through Additional Regulations, 6 July 2006
- Analysis of China’s Non-Commercial Web Site Registration Regulation, 22 February 2006
- Bulletin: Telus Blocks Consumer Access to Labour Union Web Site and Filters an Additional 766 Unrelated Sites, 2 August 2005
- Special Report: Election Monitoring in Kyrgyzstan, April 2005.
- Bulletin: Collateral Blocking: Filtering by South Korean Government of Pro-North Korean, 31 January 2005
- Bulletin: Filtering by Domestic Blog Providers in China, 14 January 2005
- Bulletin: Geolocation filtering: georgewbush.com blocked during run-up to election, 27 October 2004
- Bulletin: Google Search & Cache Filtering Behind China’s Great Firewall, 30 August 2004
- Bulletin: Probing Chinese search engine filtering, 19 August 2004
- Bulletin: Internet Content Filtering in Iran: Verification of Reported Banned Websites, 13 August 2004
- Bulletin: Internet Content Filtering in India: Variations in Compliance and Accuracy, 27 May 2004
- Advisory: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB’s Anonymizer Service in Iran, 5 May 2004
- Bulletin: OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 002, 22 March 2004
- Bulletin: OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 001, 18 March 2004
Internet Watch
Internet Watch reports investigate emerging trends in Internet filtering and control. These occasional reports take a detailed look at events, policies, technologies and countries where filtering and content controls are occurring in new and unexpected ways, or where filtering has been alleged but undetected using conventional ONI testing methodologies. They are designed to test hypotheses, refine monitoring techniques, and report on the cutting edge of the global informational battle space.
- Internet Watch Report: The 2007 Presidential Election in Nigeria, November 2007
- Internet Watch Report: The Internet and Elections: The 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus (and its implications)”, April 2006
Case Studies
ONI case studies are in-depth reports of Internet filtering for a selection of countries that predate our current country profiles.
- Case Study: Vietnam, August 2006
- Case Study: Tunisia, November 2005
- Case Study: Burma, October 2005
- Case Study: Singapore, August 2005
- Case Study: China, April 2005
- Case Study: Bahrain, February 2005
- Case Study: United Arab Emirates, February 2005
- Case Study: Iran, 2005
- Case Study: Yemen, 2005
- Case Study: Saudi Arabia, 2004