Dear Oonitarians,
I would like to discuss wether the vagueness of the term 'vendor' on
http://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/ is potentially taking some impact
from understanding OONIs test results for new users. I personally recall
thinking it meant something like "vendors of internet infrastructure"
the first time I visited the explorer, and the only place to figure it
out is in one of the boxes in /highlights/.
I'm not entirely sure what an appropriate specification should look
like, I guess it's a balance between correct definition and convenience
in length - with a focus on the first my proposal would be "vendors of
[potentially] traffic manipulating software" - but that's so long it
will probably break the design of the front page. Maybe if someone knows
a shorter, appropriate synonym for "[potentially] traffic manipulating
software" ?
Best wishes,
Anatol
Hello!
The OONI team warmly welcomes all those interested in censorship
research to join us for a *community meeting tomorrow on Tuesday, 28th
February 2017 at 16:00 UTC*.
We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how to improve
research on internet censorship!
Please join us on *https://slack.openobservatory.org* and add topics
that you would like to discuss as part of the meeting in this pad:
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If you're not able to join us tomorrow, please feel encouraged to join
us on slack any other day! We are around everyday and happy to engage in
discussions with you. :)
Looking forward to connecting with you soon!
All the best,
~ The OONI team.
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Hello OONI Community,
Thanks for your hard work on building the iPhone and Android OONI App.
It's great to know that a lot more people who are less technical will be
able to gather more measurements.
I do have a few questions.
Why are some websites appearing in the results as being censored, yet
when I try to go to the URL it works?
I know there are risks of running OONI, but what level is the risk?
Is it just going on sites like thepiratebay.org?
Or OONI going to be probing (Internationally) illegal sites like Drugs
and Abuse material going to be probed in tests as well?
Can you please clarify?
Kind Regards,
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Hellos!
Today the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is thrilled to
announce the release of *ooniprobe mobile app* on *Google Play* and
*iOS* app stores!
*Google Play:*
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openobservatory.ooniprobe
*iOS:* https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1199566366
OONI's new mobile app is easy to use and allows you to monitor:
*- **Blocking of websites;**
**- Presence of systems ("middle boxes") that could be responsible for
censorship and/or surveillance;**
**- Speed and performance of your network.*
Since OONI started monitoring global censorship events five years ago,
we have seen that many cases of internet censorship around the world are
politically motivated, aimed at stifling communications and access to
information during protests, elections, and other political events.
While we may all be familiar with such events, what we often lacked was
*evidence *required to hold those responsible to account. What we also
lacked was real-time understanding of how internet censorship was
implemented, and therefore how it could be circumvented.
Now anyone who owns an Android or iOS smartphone can play an active role
in uncovering information controls around the world.
OONI's new mobile app not only allows you to see which websites are
blocked, how, where, when, and by whom, but it also provides tips on how
to circumvent the detected censorship. It also allows you to measure the
speed and performance of your network, which can be useful in uncovering
more covert forms of censorship, such as throttling (a censorship
technique we have increasingly seen in Turkey and elsewhere around the
world).
All network measurement data collected through OONI's mobile app is
*published on OONI Explorer
*(https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/world/) and on *OONI's
measurement interface* (https://measurements.ooni.torproject.org/) --
unless you opt out. Open data allows third parties to conduct
independent studies, to verify OONI findings, and to answer other
research questions. It also allows us all to have a more accurate
understanding of information controls around the world. With each test
you run via OONI's mobile app, you are playing an active role in
increasing transparency of internet censorship.
ooniprobe is an investigatory tool and may therefore pose some risks
(https://ooni.torproject.org/about/risks/). When you first install the
app, we require you to answer a quiz correctly, demonstrating your
understanding of potential risks.
We believe that access to information is a fundamental human right and
therefore everyone should have the right and ability to examine their
digital world and the restrictions that may be imposed on it. Moses
Karanja, a Kenyan researcher on the politics of information controls at
Strathmore University's CIPIT said in a statement:
/"What Signal did for end-to-end encryption, OONI did for unmasking
censorship. Most Africans rely on mobile phones as their primary means
of accessing the internet and OONI's mobile app allows for decentralized
efforts in unmasking the nature of censorship and internet performance.
The possibilities are exciting for researchers, business and the human
rights community around the world. We look forward to interesting days
ahead."/
Learn more about OONI's mobile app here:
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-mobile-app/
Please contact the OONI team with any questions you may have at
*contact(a)openobservatory.org*.
All the best,
The OONI Team.
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Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
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