The BBC has a report out on how "Net Ninjas" at the University of Toronto are helping to fight Internet censorship.

Good on 'em. Right on. We need heroes. Etc. etc.

But forget about why they are doing what they are doing. Concentrate instead on exactly what they are doing.

As the BBC notes, "The Citizen Lab employs all manner of hardware, software and code-writing skills to essentially tap into computer networks around the world, and expose their inner workings."

Wait, there's more.

Listen to Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert. These are his quotes, taken from the BBC story.

"We probe networks, using methods I like to say that hackers, criminals and spies use all the time use all the time," he said.

"Some authoritarian regimes obviously don't like what we're doing. But we feel we're working in support of broader principles of human rights, so don't mind the controversy. Sometimes it helps."

It's Deibert's cause that makes him righeous. But he is only righteous to those who believe in his cause.

To others, to those whose network he exposes, to those whose firewalls he lets citizens climb over, Deibert is a terrorist.