ooni-talk

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August 2019

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OONI hardware?
by ilf 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Friends, I do quite some traveling, including to regions and countries that could benefit from (another) OONI probe. However, I have not really found a good way to actually put OONI to use. The main reason is: all my devices heavily use VPNs and Tor. Have you ever thought about some tiny OONI hardware probe? I for one would love an small device, for example powered by PoE and getting uplink via ethernet, or powered by USB and getting uplink via WLAN. Something like a RIPE Atlas Probe: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/probe-v2/ Three ideas come to mind: 1. Someone probably already hack up something like this on a Raspberry Pi or similar. Can someone point me to this? 2. Time and money are limited, and having something like this as a "product" needs both. But something like this could also vastly increase the amount of probes. The Android App already drastically lowered the bar to running a probe. But some dongle one would just have to plug in somewhere would lower that even more. And if cheap enough, they could just be left in interesting places. 3. RIPE Atlas Probes serve a different purpose. But has anyone ever talked to RIPE NCC about the possibility of maybe running OONI on them? I'd love to hear your thougths. I'm pretty sure others thought about this before. Best -- ilf If you upload your address book to "the cloud", I don't want to be in it.

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Ethiopia report on ongoing censorship events
by Maria Xynou 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

Hello, Today, OONI - in collaboration with Moses Karanja and Berhan Taye - published a research report documenting ongoing censorship events in Ethiopia, titled: "Resurgence of Internet Censorship in Ethiopia: Blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, and African Arguments" You can read the report here: https://ooni.io/post/resurgence-internet-censorship-ethiopia-2019/ This report is a follow-up to our previous study, which documented the blocking of WhatsApp and Telegram in Ethiopia in mid-June 2019: https://ooni.io/post/ethiopia-whatsapp-telegram/ Following the latest internet blackout (between 22nd to 27th June 2019), Ethio Telecom has resumed to blocking social media -- but this time they blocked access to Facebook Messenger and facebook.com, instead of Telegram. OONI network measurement data shows that the blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and facebook.com in Ethiopia is ongoing. OONI data also shows that africanarguments.org (a pan-African platform covering investigative stories) is currently blocked by means of DNS tampering on mobile networks (but it's accessible on fixed-line networks). The political reforms of 2018 (and the associated unblocking of websites) were promising, but Ethiopia now seems to be sliding back to old ways when internet censorship was a pervasive practice. This study can be expanded upon through the use of OONI Probe (https://ooni.io/install/) and OONI data (https://ooni.io/data/) ~ 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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