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#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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techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citi

TechCrunch · Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunchRon 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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#CitizenLab wrote that Paragon is known for developing sophisticated exploits that do not require any interaction from the targeted user, that they have found indications that the company was until recently able to hack up-to-date iPhones and that their spyware has been used in countries including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Cyprus, Singapore, and Israel.
Zero-Click Exploits. Nice.
Ciro Pellegrino, one of the Italian journalists, is head of the Naples newsroom at Fanpage.it, where he has reported on numerous high-profile cases. And is not a fan of Mme #Meloni.