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Save the date! OONI community meeting on 28th June
by Maria Xynou 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Hello! The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us**for our *monthly **community meeting**on Wednesday, 28th June 2017, at 13:00 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: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ooni-community-meeting If you're not able to join us, please feel encouraged to join us on slack any other day! Looking forward to connecting with you soon! All the best, ~ The OONI team. -- Maria Xynou Research and Partnerships Coordinator Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) https://ooni.torproject.org/ PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E

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New report: Evidence of recent censorship events in Egypt
by Maria Xynou 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Hi Oonitarians, Today OONI, in collaboration with Access Now, published a research report on our findings on *recent censorship events in Egypt*. You can find the report here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/egypt-censors/ The key findings of our study include: * We were able to confirm the *blocking of 10 news websites*, including madamasr.com and aljazeera.net. It remains unclear to us though if all of these sites were blocked under the Egyptian government's recent censorship orders. * *Link Egypt appears to be blocking access to the Tor network.* On a positive note, the Tor network appears to be accessible from the Vodafone Egypt and TE networks. * Link Egypt and Vodafone Egypt are *blocking access to torproject.org, bridges.torproject.org....and even ooni.torproject.org* (our own site). Through the collection and analysis of network measurement data, we were able to determine that Egyptian ISPs are using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to RESET connections. You can find the network measurement data collected from Egypt through the following links: * https://measurements.ooni.torproject.org/files/by_country/EG * https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/country/EG Please contact us with any questions you may have. All the best, Maria. -- Maria Xynou Research and Partnerships Coordinator Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) https://ooni.torproject.org/ PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E

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Specifying the term "vendor" on OONI Explorer
by Anatol 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

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

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[ooni-dev] Reminder for weekly OONI IRC meeting: Monday 2017-06-05, 16:00 UTC in #ooni
by Vasilis 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hello everyone, This is a reminder for today's weekly OONI IRC meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni IRC channel (irc.oftc.net) at 16:00 UTC. Meeting times around the world: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170605T16 In case that you have no IRC client you can join via the: - Web irc client: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.oftc.net/ooni - Slack: https://slack.openobservatory.org/ Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. Please use the meeting agenda (pad) if you want to propose any topics: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ooni-irc-pad You can always find previous meeting logs at: http://meetbot.debian.net/ooni/ Cheers, ~Vasilis -- Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 Pubkey: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5FBF70B1D1260162 -- Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 Pubkey: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5FBF70B1D1260162

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