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

Report: Egypt blocks BBC and Alhurra
by Maria Xynou 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

Hello, In collaboration with community members in Egypt, OONI just published a report on the blocking of BBC and Alhurra in Egypt: https://ooni.org/post/2019-egypt-blocks-bbc-and-alhurra/ We share network measurement data on: * Blocking of BBC: https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2019-09-26&domain=www.bbc.com&probe_… * Blocking of Alhurra: https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2019-09-26&domain=www.alhurra.com&pr… We corroborated OONI measurements by performing manual curl tests with the help of our local partners, the findings of which we share in the report. We found that Egyptian ISPs are using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology that is aware of TLS and which is most likely fingerprinting the SNI field of the TLS handshake. Both bbc.com and alhurra.com could therefore benefit from supporting Encrypted SNI on their backend servers to enable censorship circumvention (at least for Firefox users). As more protests are planned tomorrow, there is the risk that further censorship events may be triggered in Egypt. You can track any potential new censorship events by digging through measurements contributed by OONI Probe users in Egypt: https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2019-09-26&probe_cc=EG To check for blocked sites in Egypt, here are all the ones that present anomalies: https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2019-09-26&probe_cc=EG&only=anomalies => this is automatically updated every day with new results (but there may be some false positives) Please share with your networks: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1177294075948650499 Thanks, ~ 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 Community Meeting: Tuesday, 24th September 2019
by Maria Xynou 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Hello, The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us next Tuesday for our monthly community meeting. => Where? OONI Slack channel: https://slack.ooni.org/ (bridged with IRC: ircs://irc.oftc.net:6697/#ooni) => When? Tuesday, 24th September 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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Launched: Next Generation OONI Explorer!
by Maria Xynou 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hello, Today, the OONI team is thrilled to announce the public launch of the revamped, next generation OONI Explorer! Access the new OONI Explorer here: https://explorer.ooni.org/ Learn what's new in OONI Explorer 2.0: https://ooni.org/post/next-generation-ooni-explorer/ OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world. Since 2012, OONI Probe users (https://ooni.io/install/) have contributed 280 million measurements from 18,000 networks in 233 countries -- all of which are available on OONI Explorer. And every day, OONI Explorer gets updated with new measurements from around the world! Our goal with the revamp is to improve OONI Explorer's usability and to support more advanced search functionalities in order to simplify and enable the process of exploring measurements and discovering censorship events. With the new OONI Explorer Search Tool, you can filter measurements to view: * Confirmed blocked websites * Websites whose testing presented anomalies * Measurements collected on different networks (i.e. filter based on ASN) With the new OONI Explorer Country Pages, you can: * Gain an overview of internet censorship in each country (based on OONI measurements) * View the most recently confirmed blocked sites * View the average speed and performance of tested networks * Check whether Tor is blocked * View charts with detailed stats on measurement coverage * Compare internet censorship, speed and performance, across networks within each country We encourage you to dig through OONI Explorer measurements and to uncover evidence of internet censorship worldwide! We thank OONI Probe users for contributing measurements, we thank community members for participating in usability studies and for sharing feedback for the improvement of OONI Explorer, and we thank Mozilla for supporting the revamp of OONI Explorer (via Mozilla Open Source Support). Please share the new OONI Explorer with your networks. Warm thanks, ~ 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 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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