Ron Deibert Warns Cybersecurity Industry About U.S. Authoritarian Descent
Ahead of his keynote at Black Hat USA, Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert spoke with TechCrunch reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai about what he describes as a “descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism,” and the role that Big Tech companies are playing in “propelling forward a really frightening type of collective insecurity” that isn’t typically addressed by the cybersecurity industry as a cybersecurity problem.