Dec 21, 2020
Ezra F. Vogel, 90, one of the country’s leading experts on East Asia through a career that spanned six decades, passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday due to complications from surgery.
Vogel studied an extraordinary range of substantive topics in multiple countries from the perspectives of various academic disciplines, retooling himself as a scholar many times over in his academic career.
He was originally trained as a sociologist studying the family in the United States. He devoted two years to language study and field research in Japan in 1958-60, emerging as a specialist on Japanese society. He then embarked on Chinese-language study in the 1960s, before it was possible to travel to mainland China, and became an accomplished scholar of Chinese society as well.
Zero-click iPhone exploit, NSO Group spyware used to target Mideast journalists, Citizen Lab says
Al Jazeera headquarters in Doha, Qatar. (Al Jazeera)
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Hackers suspected to work for the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates breached 36 devices belonging to Al Jazeera journalists in recent months by using a zero-click iPhone exploit and NSO Group spyware, according to new Citizen Lab research published Sunday.
The suspected government hackers behind the operations had a particularly pernicious tactic for accessing their targets an iPhone iMessage that requires zero interaction from the target to work, according to the researchers. Citizen Lab is based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
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slowly.
It’s a habit honed in 10,000 meetings: This . is . important. . Pay . attention.
Early Friday, Mr. Sabia started answering a question: After three decades at the top rungs of corporate Canada, why accept Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request to return to Ottawa and shoulder what’s likely to be a grinding, thankless engagement as the deputy minister of finance?
Don’t underestimate Michael Sabia.
He’s whip-smart and an incredibly hard worker, but can be arrogant. He may not win an award as most sympathetic CEO of the year. He probably won’t be first in the queue to sing karaoke at the company Christmas party.
But people who have already written off Canada’s new deputy minister of Finance as a Justin Trudeau political appointee whose ideas of remaking Canada in the post-pandemic era are bound to crash and burn should be careful about making predictions.
A self-described “s t-disturber,” Sabia has always loved a challenge. The tougher, the better, for a man who, at 67, still can’t seem to sit still.