It’s incredibly damning that you have to go to the British press to learn this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... - ThreadSky

readtheorchard.org • 3 days ago

It’s incredibly damning that you have to go to the British press to learn this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/ontario-police-force-israeli-spyware

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devonp.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Toronto Star is running an opinion piece by Justin Ling on the same subject, so that's something.

readtheorchard.org•3 days ago

I just came back to post that

karengeier.com•3 days ago

Something is definitely a way to describe what Justin Ling writes

colleenmr.bsky.social•3 days ago

No mention so far that Paragon's co-founder works with Stephen Harper at AWZ Ventures

cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social•3 days ago

If it weren't for the Guardian, Rolling Stone and Wired, we'd have no idea what was really happening in the U.S., either.

wickdchiq.bsky.social•3 days ago

Isn’t it? And then they wonder why no one wants to pay for them

chadcrichton.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be fair, that Guardian article is about a Canadian study at the Citizen Lab at U of T that the researchers only just released today.

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-first-look-at-paragons-proliferating-spyware-operations/

readtheorchard.org•3 days ago

My point, which I could’ve definitely made more clear, is that the story was first reported by a British outlet and not one of the four newspapers based in Toronto

wickdchiq.bsky.social•3 days ago

That’s concerning

chadcrichton.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess I'm just infinitely less concerned than either of you that only one person in Canada posted a story about this within the first few hours of the report coming out.

Ling got an advanced copy it seems but everyone else has to at least 1) find out about the report and 2) read it first, right?

wickdchiq.bsky.social•3 days ago

So why can the Guardian write about it but our own media don’t?

readtheorchard.org•3 days ago

In fairness, the Star published an op-ed from Ling. That’s it

wickdchiq.bsky.social•3 days ago

Lol Ling. Ok.

chadcrichton.bsky.social•3 days ago

This seems to me to be a somewhat unreasonable criticism of Canadian media regarding a research report that was only released by the lab today.

Also, they did write about it:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/ontario-police-have-been-linked-to-a-spyware-company-that-makes-it-easy-to-hack/article_ac10d540-04c8-11f0-8c41-3f48ed4463ed.html

wickdchiq.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don’t like that it’s left to an op-ed writer. If he didn’t choose this topic it wouldn’t have been reported at all. That’s a problem

chadcrichton.bsky.social•3 days ago

I feel like maybe deciding that no one in Canada was going to write about this report before the report has even been out for 24 hours is a bit too ungenerous.

chadcrichton.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be fair, that article is about a report produced by Canadian researchers at a lab at the University of Toronto.

Said report was also only just released today.

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-first-look-at-paragons-proliferating-spyware-operations/