Ron Deibert
rondeibert.bsky.social
Ron Deibert
@rondeibert.bsky.social
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Needless to say, this is all very concerning.

If you're interested in more about the abuses of NSO Group's spyware, I write about them extensively in Chasing Shadows chasingshadowsbook.ca

I'm pleased to say the paperback edition of Chasing Shadows is due out Feb 2026, with a new afterword!
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In this real-life spy thriller, cyber security expert Ronald Deibert uncovers the unseemly marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In addition to everything else that is shameful here, the Saudis paved the way for Khasoggi's murder by hacking his family, wife & friends' devices using NSO's Pegasus spyware.

The same NSO Group now owned & operated by US-based Trump cronies.

For more on all of this, see chasingshadowsbook.ca
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In this real-life spy thriller, cyber security expert Ronald Deibert uncovers the unseemly marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
everlasting shame on all these people
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
🔴 Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bonesawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity.

Read our full statement below:
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
That was a spectacular show @ronsexsmith.bsky.social 👍. thank you
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
100%
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Good to hear that Apple and WhatsApp will be continuing their victim notifications. These are critical to user safety and spyware abuse investigations

More details on the changing spyware landscape in the US 🇺🇸 by @skirchy.bsky.social 👇

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration
Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Along with numerous partners worldwide, @citizenlab.ca has documented extensive abuses of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in just about every region of the world over the last ten years.

Want to learn more?

I write about our investigations extensively in my book Chasing Shadows chasingshadowsbook.ca
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In this real-life spy thriller, cyber security expert Ronald Deibert uncovers the unseemly marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance.
chasingshadowsbook.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
From BCCLA.
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"It’s astonishing how the industry is able to experiment on human populations with such far-reaching technology and largely unrestrained. We need some kind of wrapping around it to control for the harms and consequences.”
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM