Sexual assault allegations levied against high profile security researcher and activist
Sexual assault allegations — apparently from multiple individuals — have been made against a prominent security researcher, prompting his resignation from several public interest organizations he was affiliated with. Morgan Marquis-Boire was an employee of First Look Media until this past September. He was also a technical advisor to organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
As part of his public interest work for Citizen Lab, Marquis-Boire researched commercial surveillance software used against domestic violence victims by their abusers. (Earlier this year, he publicly thanked the author of this article for inspiring his work by writing…
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