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Censored Planet is a Research Lab at the University of Michigan operating at the intersection of networking, security, privacy, and Internet measurement.
February 24th, 2019
Report on proliferation of censorship filtersNovember 3rd, 2019
Report on Russia's information controlJuly 23rd, 2019
Kazakhstan HTTPS InterceptionOur research publications are often technical and complex, here we aim to communicate our research to a broader audience.
How the Russian government is gradually building national-level censorship policies on thousands of ISPs using commodity DPIs. Censored Planet obtained...
Read ReportThe Kazakhstan government recently began using a fake root CA to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against HTTPS connections to...
Read ReportInvestigation into the global proliferation of content filtering technologies used for censorship using FilterMap, a novel framework that can scalably...
Read ReportOur research publications are often technical and complex, here we aim to communicate our research to a broader audience.
How the Russian government is gradually building national-level censorship policies on thousands of ISPs using commodity DPIs. Censored Planet obtained...
Read ReportThe Kazakhstan government recently began using a fake root CA to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against HTTPS connections to...
Read ReportInvestigation into the global proliferation of content filtering technologies used for censorship using FilterMap, a novel framework that can scalably...
Read ReportOur observatory provides continuous data about Internet censorship practices in countries around the world.
Our observatory provides continuous data about Internet censorship practices in countries around the world.
We design and deploy scalable techniques and systems to detect and protect users’ Internet experience from censorship, geo-discrimnation, surveillance and various other internet freedom violations.
We are always looking for promising students (computer science, political science, journalism) and developers to join our team!
We are always looking for promising students (CS, political science, journalism) and developers to join our team!
February 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
@inproceedings{filtermap,
title={Measuring the Deployment of Network Censorship Filters at Global Scale},
author={Sundara Raman, Ram and Stoll, Adrian and Dalek, Jakub and Sarabi, Armin and Ramesh, Reethika and Scott, Will and Ensafi, Roya},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2020, San Diego, California, USA},
year={2020}
}
February 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
@inproceedings{ndss20-russia,
title={Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia},
author={R. Ramesh, R. Sundara Raman, M. Bernhard, V. Ongkowijaya, L. Evdokimov, A. Edmundson, S. Sprecher, M. Ikram, R.Ensafi},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2020, San Diego, California, USA},
year={2020}
}
May 2019 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
@inproceedings{065961dc95474ceaa258c117581529ec,
title={The chain of implicit trust: an analysis of the Web third-party resources loading},
author={Muhammad Ikram and Rahat Masood and Gareth Tyson and Kaafar, Mohamed Ali and Noha Loizon and Roya Ensafi},
year={2019},
booktitle={Proceeding WWW ’19 The World Wide Web Conference},
publisher={Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}
}
November 2018 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
@inproceedings{Allison2018403,
title={403 Forbidden: A Global View of CDN Geoblocking},
author={Allison McDonald and Matthew Bernhard and Luke Valenta and Benjamin VanderSloot and Will Scott and Nick Sullivan and J. Alex Halderman and Roya Ensafi},
booktitle={ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
year={2018}
}
August 2018 USENIX Security Symposium
@inproceedings{Ben2018Quack:,
title={Quack: Scalable Remote Measurement of Application-Layer Censorship},
author={Ben VanderSloot and Allison McDonald and Will Scott and J. Alex Halderman and Roya Ensafi},
booktitle={USENIX Security Symposium},
year={2018}
}
Censored Planet projects and research reports have appeared in various news outlets and tech publications.
