Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.
"With civil society under attack, the very foundations of our country " our ability to hold the government accountable, to be free to dissent and debate, to support vulnerable communities " are also threatened."
We are at that point of the dictatorial slide that CEOs of corporations -- Tim Cook of Apple being the latest -- obsequiously bearing gifts of gold for the Great Leader.