November 2019 - ooni-talk - lists.torproject.org

Wrong country detected - how to correct?
by Matt Bruce 31 May '20

31 May '20

Hi all, I'm running ooniprobe on a Raspberry Pi with Pi-Hole and CloudFlare as the upstream DNS, and it seems to be working fine with the exception that it appears to be detecting the wrong country. It's showing "Country: BE". I initially thought it was showing the wrong ASN, too, but lookups using multiple tools confirm it's the correct one. I assume "BE" means Belgium, but those 2 letters are also the first two of the county in which I live in the UK. Is it possible that ooniprobe is pulling in the state/province/county data as Country rather than the actual country by mistake? (Just guessing). It's uploading the measurements with this same BE Country information, and I'm concerned that it's polluting OONI data. I've read the documentation, searched online, etc, but I can't find how to stop the bad detection or to override those values in the ooniprobe.conf file. Assuming I shouldn't just ignore this, can anyone steer me in the right direction, please? Thanks, Matt

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OONI Community Meeting tomorrow: 26th November 2019
by Maria Xynou 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hello, The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us tomorrow for our monthly community meeting. => Where? OONI Slack channel: https://slack.ooni.org/ (bridged with IRC: ircs://irc.oftc.net:6697/#ooni) => When? Tuesday, 26th November 2019 at 14:00 UTC (for 1 hour, until 15:00 UTC) The monthly OONI community meetings aim to: * Collect community feedback on OONI tools & methodologies * Address questions in relation to the use of OONI tools and OONI data * Foster discussions on internet censorship issues * Receive updates from the community We'd love to meet you and hear from you, and hope you can join us! Please add topics that you'd like to discuss during 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/IRC on any other day! All the best, ~ OONI team -- Maria Xynou Research & Partnerships Director 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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Report on Iran's internet blackout
by Maria Xynou 24 Nov '19

24 Nov '19

Hello, In collaboration with CAIDA/IODA and Iranian community members (Kandoo), we co-published a research report which shares measurement data and technical observations on Iran's internet blackout. Our report is available here: https://ooni.org/post/2019-iran-internet-blackout/ Iran’s nation-wide Internet blackout is confirmed by several data sources, such as IODA, Google traffic data, and Oracle’s Internet Intelligence data. These data sources show that the Internet blackout in Iran started on 16th November 2019 and has been ongoing. As of 21st November 2019 (and more drastically from 23rd November 2019), Internet connectivity is being restored in Iran. IODA data shows that Iranian cellular operators were disconnected first on 16th November 2019 (followed by almost all other operators over the next 5 hours), and that ISPs appear to have used diverse mechanisms to enforce the blackout. By analyzing packet captures from the MCCI (AS197207) network, we found that a RST packet is injected at both ends of the connection. During the blackout, most Iranians were barred from connecting to the global Internet, but they still had access to Iran’s national intranet: the domestic network hosting Iranian websites and services. Yet, OONI measurements (which require Internet connectivity) were collected from multiple networks in Iran between 16th November 2019 to 23rd November 2019, showing that the internet blackout was not total. To explore whether and how connectivity to the Internet could be possible from Iran during the blackout, we performed manual testing locally. We found that DNS tunneling could possibly be a low bandwidth solution to get network traffic to leave Iran. We also found that it was possible to connect to the Internet by using virtual private servers (VPS) to setup a local proxy in Iran and use that proxy to tunnel traffic to another proxy outside Iran. Please share this report with your networks: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1198321792076701696 Thank you, ~ OONI team. -- Maria Xynou Research & Partnerships Director 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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OONI workshop slides
by Maria Xynou 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Hello friends, First, I'd like to thank those of you who have been facilitating OONI workshops over the last years, engaging communities far and wide with OONI Probe and censorship measurement research. We really appreciate your important work! To support your efforts and encourage others to facilitate OONI workshops too, we have published some OONI workshop slides that you can use: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UAxGeF1NhCXc8pT7cfWTp0NPdkWB5LInBkG… We have published these OONI workshop slides on Google Slides so that you can: * download the slides in the format of your choice * edit and customize the slides (so that they're more relevant to your local context and to the needs of the communities you teach) You can also find the OONI workshop slides via the Get Involved section of the OONI website: https://ooni.org/get-involved/ We hope you find these workshop slides useful and feel encouraged/inspired to teach your local communities! Feedback is very much appreciated, and I'm happy to address any questions you may have (particularly since not all slides are self-explanatory). If anyone else would like to share their OONI workshop slides, that too is of course encouraged! :) Cheers, Maria. -- Maria Xynou Research & Partnerships Director 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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