<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"># OONI Monthly Report: August 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The OONI team made steady progress in August.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We published a new research report on our study of internet censorship in Cuba, and we created three new test lists. We carried out research on how best to secure probe orchestration, and we made progress on our data processing pipeline and on the custom URL scheme for the mobile clients. We also created a new OONI style guide for the design of our apps and the creation of data visualizations. Our commentary about OONI was published by Project Syndicate.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Published research report on internet censorship in Cuba</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We published a new research report, titled: "Measuring Internet Censorship in Cuba's ParkNets"</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">You can read the report here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/cuba-internet-censorship-2017/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We also published a summary of the report on the Tor blog: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/measuring-internet-censorship-cubas-parknets</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our study was covered by the following:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">1. Amnesty International: https://medium.com/@AmnistiaOnline/la-paradoja-de-internet-de-cuba-b3cd206a3f1d</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">2. Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbbjxm/here-are-the-41-websites-you-cant-access-in-cuba</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">3. El Nuevo Herald: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/mundo/america-latina/cuba-es/article170768342.html</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Style guide for design of apps and data visualizations</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We created a style guide for the design of our apps and for the creation of data visualizations based on OONI data.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our master style guide can be found here: https://openobservatory.github.io/design/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our style guide for the data visualizations that are to be included in our reports and blogs can be found here: https://github.com/OpenObservatory/design/issues/2 </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">It's worth noting that we created a graph based on this style guide for our Cuba report, which was re-used by Motherboard.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We also started working on a style guide for the design of our apps: https://github.com/OpenObservatory/design/issues/3</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Based on these new style guides, we created some mock-ups for the new design of our website (https://github.com/OpenObservatory/design/issues/5) and mobile apps (https://github.com/OpenObservatory/design/issues/7).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Created new test lists</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In collaboration with community members, we created the following three new test lists:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">1. Taiwan test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/205</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">2. Afghanistan test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/203</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">3. Angola test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/204</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Research on securing probe orchestration</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We brainstormed and researched on how to best secure probe orchestration. Since this is a very critical components we believe it’s essential that it does not get compromise or if compromise happens it is mitigated.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The results of these discussions are documented here:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/24">https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/24</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/26">https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/26</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/27">https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/27</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Progress on custom URL scheme</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">A major feature request that we have received from our community members is to add support in our mobile clients for testing single URLs (independently from whether or not they are included in the Citizen Lab test lists).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This was implemented with a custom URI scheme (ex. ooni://nettest/web_connectivity?url=http://google.com) that allows people to put a badge on their website that, when clicked by a user with the ooniprobe app installed, will run an ooniprobe measurement to a site of their choosing or, if they don’t have the app installed, prompt them to install it.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This will allow people to encourage the usage of ooniprobe for testing the reachability of sites they care to monitor and/or run experiments that they believe are important.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">During August, we made progress towards implementing the custom URL scheme in our mobile apps and a new version of the app supporting the URI scheme to run tests with or without custom parameter will be released soon.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">More details abou this in the following tickets:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooniprobe-android/issues/66">https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooniprobe-android/issues/66</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Progress on data processing pipeline</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We continued to make progress on the engineering of our data processing pipeline. During August, we started the extraction of anomalies from the measurements and fixes a variety of different bugs we found in the processing of the data.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">More information about this can be found here:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/pull/62">https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/pull/62</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Project Syndicate commentary about OONI</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We wrote a commentary explaining why running ooniprobe matters, which was published by Project Syndicate. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The commentary can be found here: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ooniprobe-internet-censorship-by-maria-xynou-2017-08</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our commentary was subsequently cross-published by many other publishers as well.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Userbase</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In August 2017 ooniprobe was run 78,464 times from 1,728 different vantage points across 159 countries around the world.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This information can also be found through our stats here: https://measurements.ooni.torproject.org/stats</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">~ The OONI team.</div></div><br></div><br><div class="bloop_sign" id="bloop_sign_1505320392563687936"></div></body></html>