Profile
Bill Marczak is a Senior Researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. Bill's work focuses on documenting and attributing novel technological threats to Internet freedom, including new censorship and surveillance tools. Bill's expertise is in Internet scanning, digital forensics, and open source research. Some of Bill's past reports have helped uncover mercenary spyware companies like FinFisher, NSO Group, and Cytrox, documented the use of Sandvine's deep packet inspection technology for targeted spyware injection in Turkey, and discovered China's Great Cannon, a countrywide infrastructure for hijacking foreign computers to launch DDoS attacks against websites. Coverage of Bill's work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Larry King and 60 Minutes.