Report Warns of Growing ‘Dark Side’ of Cyberspace

This article summarizes a Citizen Lab report warning that growing state involvement in cyberspace—through surveillance, censorship, propaganda and offensive cyber operations—poses serious threats to human rights and the future of the Internet; it cites examples like GhostNet, describes how state and criminal techniques are converging, and urges a distributed security model with stronger checks and balances on governments and private actors.