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We release novel network measurement methods for locating and examining censorship devices
Read ReportWe measured Russia's new TSPU censorship system, which empowers the Russian government to unilaterally roll out information control measures.
Read ReportWe identified OpenVPN's fingerprinting vulnerabilities and tested them with a real-world ISP
Read ReportAs of March 10, 2021, Russia has throttled access to several Twitter-related domains.
Read ReportA global study of filtering of websites from top COVID-19 search results
Read ReportExploring 20 months of censorship measurement data collected from 221 countries shows evidence of increasing censorship in many countries.
Read ReportUS government and military websites have implemented technical measures to drop traffic from China and Hong Kong.
Read ReportInvestigation into the global proliferation of content filtering technologies used for censorship using FilterMap, a novel framework that can scalably...
Read ReportHow 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 ReportWe release novel network measurement methods for locating and examining censorship devices
Read ReportWe measured Russia's new TSPU censorship system, which empowers the Russian government to unilaterally roll out information control measures.
Read ReportWe identified OpenVPN's fingerprinting vulnerabilities and tested them with a real-world ISP
Read ReportAs of March 10, 2021, Russia has throttled access to several Twitter-related domains.
Read ReportA global study of filtering of websites from top COVID-19 search results
Read ReportExploring 20 months of censorship measurement data collected from 221 countries shows evidence of increasing censorship in many countries.
Read ReportUS government and military websites have implemented technical measures to drop traffic from China and Hong Kong.
Read ReportInvestigation into the global proliferation of content filtering technologies used for censorship using FilterMap, a novel framework that can scalably...
Read ReportHow 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 ReportWhat the internet looks like to users in the U.S. can be quite different from the online experience of people in other countries.
Many accounts of censorship begin—and end—with anecdotes or short-term studies from a handful of vantage points. To enable continuous measurement of network-level censorship on ...
Despite the pervasive and continually evolving nature of Internet censorship, measurements remain comparatively sparse. Understanding the scope, scale, and evolution of Internet...
Since 2013, Brazil has taken significant steps to build out their networking infrastructure to thwart nation-state mass surveillance. For example, the country is deploying a 3,...
This post describes our analysis of China’s “Great Cannon,” our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China. The ...
Censored Planet projects and research reports have appeared in various news outlets and tech publications.