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[Event] Pop Up PTIM Session: VPN censorship, Probes and Resilience - Building Feedback Loops with Open Data
by Vasilis 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

Dear all, Internews announced the next Pop Up PTIM Sessions! These are stand alone sessions, allowing the community to discuss PT related topics and stay up to date on the progress of this community. The third session will be presented by members of the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI). This presentation will cover the ongoing efforts to incorporate protocol-aware VPN probes into the OONI ecosystem. Read more about it here: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/popup-ptim-ooni-announcement-july… This session will take place on July 13th at 16:00 UTC/12:00 ET/18:00 CEST. Registration: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/dWaOQCbEqzgIlAmPh8JhprzllYl+bHCt7NZ5… Code of Conduct: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/code-of-conduct/ Announcement post: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/popup-ptim-ooni-announcement-july… Please feel free to share this event announcement. Hope to see you there! --Vasilis -- PGP Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 PGP Public Key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8FD5CF5F39FC03EBB38274705FBF…

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OONI Community Meeting: Tuesday, 28th June 2022
by Maria Xynou 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

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, *28th June 2022 at 13:00 UTC* (for 1 hour) As part of this month's community meeting, we'd like to receive *your feedback on how we can improve OONI's Code of Conduct *( https://github.com/ooni/ooni.org/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#ooni-code-o… ). Please add any additional topics that you'd like to discuss during the meeting in this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ooni-community-meeting-keep We hope you can join us! All the best, ~ OONI team

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PT community meetup June [28/06/2022]
by Vasilis 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Dear all, This month Pluggable Transports meetup will take place on Tuesday, June 28. Time: 10:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM UTC / 16:00 PM CEST Where: Pluggable Transports channel * [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#pluggable-transports:matrix.org) * [IRC (no account required)](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=pluggable-transports) * [Slack](https://openobservatory.slack.com/messages/pluggable-transports/) * [Mattermost](https://community.internetfreedomfestival.org/community/channel… Please add any topics you would like to discuss during the meeting here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/pt-meetup-keep More info and details on how to join: https://pluggabletransports.info/blog/pt-meetup-jun2022/ Hope to see many of you there. Best, ~Vasilis -- PGP Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 PGP Public Key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8FD5CF5F39FC03EBB38274705FBF…

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Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: A Preliminary Study
by Maria Xynou 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Hello, Last year, OONI wrote a research paper ("*Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: A Preliminary Study*") which was presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'21) as part of the DNS Privacy Workshop. You can read this paper here: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/dnspriv21-02-paper.pdf This study involves an *investigation of encrypted DNS (DoT & DoH) blocking in Kazakhstan, Iran, and China* with a new OONI Probe experiment (DNSCheck). Today, we're publishing a blog post with a *summary of findings* (and video presentation): https://ooni.org/post/2022-doh-dot-paper-dnsprivacy21/ You can also find a summary of findings through this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1537764247442268161 You can help contribute measurements on encrypted DNS blocking by running OONI Probe: https://ooni.org/install Huge thanks to community members who supported this study! Thanks, Maria.

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Research: A Quick Look at QUIC Censorship
by Maria Xynou 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Hello, In previous months, OONI had the great pleasure to serve as the host organization for Kathrin Elmenhorst's Open Technology Fund (OTF) Information Controls Fellowship. As part of her fellowship with us, Kathrin investigated QUIC blocking & QUIC's potential for censorship resistance. Her findings reveal *QUIC censorship in China, India, Russia and Uganda*, and she shares approaches for QUIC censorship evasion. Learn more about her amazing research through her blog post ("*A Quick Look at QUIC Censorship*"): https://ooni.org/post/2022-quick-look-quic-censorship/ Thanks, Maria.

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OONI submission for OHCHR Report on Internet Shutdowns
by Maria Xynou 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

Hello, Currently the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council is taking place. In response to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’s call for submissions in support of the OHCHR report on internet shutdowns and human rights to the 50th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2022, the OONI team provided a submission with relevant information on the occurrence of mandated disruptions of access to social media and messaging platforms over the past 5 years based on empirical OONI network measurement data. Read our submission here: https://ooni.org/documents/2022-ooni-submission-ohchr-report-internet-shutd… We share *OONI data on social media blocks during elections and protests over the last 5 years*. Thanks, Maria.

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Job Opening: OONI Community Coordinator
by Maria Xynou 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Hello, I'm excited to share that we're hiring! The OONI team (a non-profit fighting internet censorship) is looking for a dedicated *community coordinator* to help grow and support the OONI community around the world. *Information about the job description, qualification requirements, and how to apply* is available here: https://ooni.org/post/2022-job-opening-ooni-community-coordinator/ Born in 2012, OONI builds free software (OONI Probe) that enables anyone to detect and collect evidence of internet censorship. With more than 100k installs, OONI Probe is run in more than 160 countries every month. To increase transparency of internet censorship, we publish censorship measurements as open data in near real-time. This data supports research and advocacy efforts investigating and fighting internet censorship worldwide. By joining our team, you will support our partners and global community of human rights defenders to measure and fight internet censorship. Our community is at the heart of our work, and you will play an important role in helping to ensure that our tools meet the needs of our community. This is a *full-time 12-month contract position* (which may be extended), starting ASAP. This is a *fully remote position*. We encourage applications from anywhere in the world! The application deadline is *Sunday, 12th June 2022.* Please spread the word ( https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1525110440153559040) and help us find someone who can best serve the internet freedom community! Thank you, OONI team.

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PT community meetup April [31/05/2022]
by Vasilis 27 May '22

27 May '22

Dear all, This month Pluggable Transports meetup will take place on Tuesday, May 31. Time: 10:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM UTC / 16:00 PM CEST Where: Pluggable Transports channel * [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#pluggable-transports:matrix.org) * [IRC (no account required)](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=pluggable-transports) * [Slack](https://openobservatory.slack.com/messages/pluggable-transports/) * [Mattermost](https://community.internetfreedomfestival.org/community/channel… Please add any topics you would like to discuss during the meeting here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/pt-meetup-keep More info and details on how to join: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/pt-meetup-may2022/ Hope to see many of you there. Best, ~Vasilis -- PGP Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 PGP Public Key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8FD5CF5F39FC03EBB38274705FBF…

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OONI Community Meeting: Tuesday, 31st May 2022
by Maria Xynou 26 May '22

26 May '22

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, *31st May 2022 at 15:00 UTC* (for 1 hour) Please add topics that you'd like to discuss during the meeting in this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ooni-community-meeting-keep 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 hope you can join us! All the best, ~ OONI team

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[Event] Pop Up PTIM Session: Gamer Games Unblocked
by Vasilis 16 May '22

16 May '22

Dear all, Internews announced the next Pop Up PTIM Sessions! These are stand alone sessions, allowing the community to discuss PT related topics and stay up to date on the progress of this community. The second session will be presented by the Dr. Richard Brooks of Clemson University. They will share the work they have been doing for the past few years on the usage of PTs in the context of a VPN application. Read more about it here: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/popup-ptim-minecruft-announcement/ This session will take place on May 19th at 13:00 UTC/9:00 ET. Session Title: Gamer Games Unblocked Registration: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/GdwbPhD-Cpctzu8WAvVCSdH+G-KMawkttEag… Code of Conduct: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/code-of-conduct/ Announcement post: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/popup-ptim-minecruft-announcement/ Please feel free to share this event announcement. Hope to see you there! --Vasilis -- PGP Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 PGP Public Key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8FD5CF5F39FC03EBB38274705FBF…

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