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Has anyone found out who is financing this dubious InterSecLab? Or who the owner is?
I found the following: Home - InterSecLab
And so far, I haven't found anything on the site except propaganda and marketing.
https://www.opentech.fund/projects-we-support/supported-projects/interseclab/
I found the above, here is the referenced report: https://interseclab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Internet-Coup_September2025.pdf
The acknowledgements:
Acknowlegements
This research by InterSecLab is part of the Great Firewall Export investigation, a joint collaboration with the partners Amnesty International, Justice For Myanmar, Paper Trail Media, The Globe and Mail, the Tor Project, the Austrian newspaper DER STANDARD and Follow The Money. We thank Paper Trail Media for their coordination role in the consortium. We also express our immense gratitude to Amnesty International, Justice For Myanmar, Paper Trail Media, The Globe and Mail and the Tor Project for the amazing collaborative approach, enriching discussions, sharing of key findings, open-source material and interviews, support with translation of Chinese language and all matters that made this report possible. We also appreciate the contributions from the Tor Project team, who reviewed the Tor section, and the Psiphon team, who provided valuable information and reviewed the Psiphon section.