{GFWeb}: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale

NP Hoang, J Dalek, M Crete-Nishihata… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Censorship systems such as the Great Firewall (GFW) have been continuously refined to
enhance their filtering capabilities. However, most prior studies, and in particular the GFW …

Fingerprinting Obfuscated Proxy Traffic with Encapsulated {TLS} Handshakes

D Xue, M Kallitsis, A Houmansadr… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
The global escalation of Internet censorship by nation-state actors has led to an ongoing
arms race between censors and obfuscated circumvention proxies. Research over the past …

TSPU: Russia's decentralized censorship system

D Xue, B Mixon-Baca, ValdikSS, A Ablove… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Russia's Sovereign RuNet was designed to build a Russian national firewall. Previous
anecdotes and isolated events in the past two years reflected centrally coordinated …

Stegozoa: Enhancing webrtc covert channels with video steganography for internet censorship circumvention

G Figueira, D Barradas, N Santos - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Several totalitarian states around the world deploy sophisticated censorship apparatuses to
prevent citizens from freely accessing the Internet. To counter these restrictions, some …

Bridging Barriers: A Survey of Challenges and Priorities in the Censorship Circumvention Landscape

D Xue, A Ablove, R Ramesh, GK Danciu… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
The ecosystem of censorship circumvention tools (CTs) remains one of the most opaque
and least understood, overshadowed by the precarious legal status around their usage and …

Queer Cultures in Digital Asia| Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The Commercialization of Boys' Love Culture in China

Y Wang, J Tan - International Journal of Communication, 2023 - ijoc.org
This article investigates the role of fans as content regulators in what we call the China
model of Internet censorship. Expanding on Jenkins' participatory culture, we construct a …

Many Roads Lead To Rome: How Packet Headers Influence {DNS} Censorship Measurement

A Bhaskar, P Pearce - 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX …, 2022 - usenix.org
Internet censorship is widespread, impacting citizens of hundreds of countries around the
world. Recent work has developed techniques that can perform widespread, longitudinal …

The spectre of surveillance and censorship in future internet architectures

M Wrana, D Barradas, N Asokan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.15828, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent initiatives known as Future Internet Architectures (FIAs) seek to redesign the Internet
to improve performance, scalability, and security. However, some governments perceive …

[PDF][PDF] A discussion on ethical cybersecurity issues in digital service chains

F Tronnier, S Pape, S Löbner… - Cybersecurity of digital …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Enabling cybersecurity and protecting personal data are crucial challenges in the
development and provision of digital service chains. Data and information are the key …

A study of china's censorship and its evasion through the lens of online gaming

Y Feng, R Zhai, R Sion, B Carbunar - 32nd USENIX Security Symposium …, 2023 - usenix.org
For the past 20 years, China has increasingly restricted the access of minors to online
games using addiction prevention systems (APSes). At the same time, and through different …