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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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Lepidopter 1.0.0 is released
by Vasilis 24 May '17

24 May '17

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce a new release of lepidopter the Raspberry Pi distribution of ooniprobe. ** You can download the ledipoter image here **: Zip archive: https://get.ooni.torproject.org/lepidopter/lepidopter-v1.0.0-armel.img.zip (gpg signature: https://get.ooni.torproject.org/lepidopter/lepidopter-v1.0.0-armel.img.zip.…) Xz archive: https://get.ooni.torproject.org/lepidopter/lepidopter-v1.0.0-armel.img.xz (gpg signature: https://get.ooni.torproject.org/lepidopter/lepidopter-v1.0.0-armel.img.xz.a…) ** Installation instructions ** Upon copying the image to the SD card, plugging it in and connecting the Raspberry Pi to the network, power and waiting some minutes for it to boot up, you should be able to view ooniprobe's graphical user interface by visiting this URL: http://lepidopter.local User documentation and detailed image installation instructions can be found here: https://ooni.torproject.org/install/lepidopter/ The full release changelog can be found here: https://github.com/TheTorProject/lepidopter/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Please let us know if you have encountered any issues during the installation/usage of lepidopter. Enjoy the new release! Cheers, ~Vasilis -- 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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New report: The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia
by Maria Xynou 23 May '17

23 May '17

Hi, Today, in collaboration with Sinar Project, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) released a new research report: *The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia:* https://ooni.torproject.org/post/indonesia-internet-censorship/ OONI network measurement data collected from 21 local vantage points confirms the *blocking of 161 websites* in Indonesia between 22nd June 2016 to 1st March 2017. Indonesian ISPs appear to be implementing block pages primarily through DNS hijacking. Multiple sites expressing criticism towards Islam were found to be blocked, possibly under Article 156(a) of Indonesia’s Criminal Code which prohibits blasphemy against religions. Other blocked sites include: * LGBT sites; * A blog expressing political criticism; * An independent U.S. news outlet; * A site, led by female activist artists, that defends gender and ethnic rights; * Anonymity tool sites; * Hosting platforms; * An online translator; * Popular online dating sites; * Sites promoting sex education and AIDS/HIV prevention; * A site featuring tattoos and piercings; * Gaming sites. *Vimeo and Reddit were found to be blocked* in some networks in Indonesia, even though their ban was lifted more than two years ago. A popular animal rights site was also found to be blocked, possibly because it was mistaken for a pornographic website due to its domain (peta.xxx). Under the MICT’s 2014 decree, Indonesian ISPs are granted the authority to ban “negative content” at their own discretion, regardless of whether such sites are included in the official Trust Positif blocklist. This excessive authority granted to Indonesian ISPs may explain why many different types of sites were found to be blocked across different networks. On a positive note, internet censorship in Indonesia can probably be circumvented through the use of Tor software. OONI data shows that the Tor network was accessible in Indonesia during the testing period. Please share the report with your networks. Happy to address any questions you may have. 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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ooniprobe socks proxy
by paja 23 May '17

23 May '17

Hi, I would like to know, if it's possible for ooniprobe to make queries through socks proxy server ? Thanks

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OONI community meeting tomorrow, 23rd May
by Maria Xynou 22 May '17

22 May '17

Hello! The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us *tomorrow, 23rd May 2017 at 14:00 UTC, for our monthly **community meeting**.* 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 tomorrow, 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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Stipends for attending PETS
by Maria Xynou 17 May '17

17 May '17

Hello, Stipends are available for those who want to attend PETS, the annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium: https://petsymposium.org/2017/stipends.php PETS is an academic conference on privacy and anonymity, and you can find more information about it here: https://petsymposium.org/ This year it's being hosted in Minneapolis on 18th-21st July 2017. You can find the list of accepted papers here: https://petsymposium.org/2017/paperlist.php Please consider applying. They are interested in encouraging participation beyond the academic community. The deadline to apply for a stipend is 31st May 2017. Please share this with your networks. Thanks, 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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OONI at Cryptorave 2017
by Vasilis 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hello, Together with Coding rights we are going to have a session about OONI and also host a LATAM (Latin America) specific workshop in order to improve the test-lists (https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists) from different countries at this year's Cryptorave (https://cryptorave.org/). You are more than welcome to join us and bring your comments in real or virtually! The original submission (in Portuguese): ### *Listatona OONI contra a censura na web* *Abstract:*A Coding Rights, em parceria com o Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) / Tor Project, vai promover um encontro para expandirmos juntes a lista de sites a serem testados no Brasil e em outros países da Latinoamérica pelas sondas do OONI, que detectam censura, manipulação de tráfego e sinais de vigilância. Se puder, traga seu computador com o Navegador Tor instalado! *Description:* O Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI, "Observatório Aberto de Interferência na Rede" <https://ooni.torproject.org/>) é um projeto de software livre dentro do Tor Project que busca detectar censura na Internet, manipulação de tráfego e sinais de vigilância ao redor do mundo através da coleta e do processamento de medições na rede. Desde o fim de 2012, o OONI coletou milhões de medidas de rede em mais de 90 países ao redor do mundo, jogando luz em múltiplos casos de interferência na rede. Graças ao projeto OONI temos dados abertos <https://ooni.torproject.org/data/> que mostram (inclusive em uma interface de mapa-mundi <https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/>) quais páginas estão bloqueadas em um determinado país. Ao escrever essa descrição, por exemplo, a Noruega bloqueia 4 sites relacionados à bittorrent e troca de arquivos, enquanto a China bloqueia dezenas dos sites testados (como avaaz.org, archive.org, savetibet.org e google.com). Com "sondas" fazendo testes diários no Brasil e uma lista de websites abrangente, o OONI torna possível saber em menos de 24h se algum deles vier a ser bloqueado e ter dados concretos para demonstrar o problema e investigá-lo a fundo, além de montar um registro histórico que pode ser usado por jornalistas e pesquisadores(as). Uma parte importante de identificar a censura é determinar /quais/sites testar. As sondas do OONI espalhadas pelo mundo usam listas mantida pelo Citizen Lab, um laboratório multidisciplinar baseado na Universidade de Toronto. As listas permitem às sondas testarem tanto sites de escopo global (facebook.com, google.com, tumblr.com, mozilla.org...) quanto de escopo do país onde a sonda se encontra. A lista é mantida em um repositório git e é aberta a colaborações de quaisquer grupos e organizações interessada em complementá-las, sendo usada não só pelo OONI como por outros projetos de detecção e medição de censura e outros "controles de informação". A atividade será conduzida por Lucas Teixeira, da Coding Rights, e Vasilis Ververis, membro do OONI e desenvolvedor do Lepidopter, distribuição GNU/Linux que permite usar facilmente Raspberry Pis como sondas para o OONI. METODOLOGIA Vasilis fará uma breve introdução ao OONI. Dividiremos então as pessoas participantes em grupos, primeiro por país e em seguida pelas 31 categorias já definidas pelo Citizen Lab para as URLs <https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/blob/master/lists/00-LEGEND-new_ca…>. A depender do número de pessoas, cada grupo pode pegar N categorias. Buscaremos equilíbrio de gênero dentro dos grupos. Em seguida, cada grupo preparará seu ambiente de pesquisa em um ou mais computadores: - Navegador: para conduzir a pesquisa em motores de busca e abrir os sites para inspecioná-los, o Navegador Tor deve ser usado, especialmente para categorias mais sensíveis (como "Terrorismo e Militantes" ou "Discurso de Ódio"). Para sites menos controversos, por motivos de velocidade ou pelo fato de alguns websites bloquearem ou dificultarem o acesso a usuáries do Tor, um perfil limpo em modo incognito/privado do Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome ou outro navegador atual também poderá ser usado. - Dados: um documento colaborativo hospedado em um EtherCalc (ideal) ou em um Etherpad (software mais estável) vai reunir as categorias, já estruturadas o mais próximo possível do formato final (planilha CSV) que os dados devem ter para que a contribuição seja enviada. Uma vez pronto o ambiente, os grupos passarão a pesquisar e coletar URLs de sites em sua categoria, sempre garantindo que cada URL adicionada na lista está exatamente como aparece em um navegador comum. Se o site se apresenta como HTTPS, então a versão em HTTPS deve estar incluída. Se o site inclui "www" no domínio, também deve constar, etc. Devemos buscar a maior diversidade possível nas URLs para garantir que o viés dos testes seja o mais limitado possível. Assim, dentro de cada categoria devemos buscar URLs que representem o melhor possível toda a gama de websites dentro dela, seja por questões ideológicas, tecnológicas, socioeconômicas, de gênero, etc. Vamos buscar orientar e lembrar os grupos de não se embrenharem muito em cada parte do espectro de sites de uma categoria, como por exemplo encher a categoria "Religião" de sites cristãos evangélicos em detrimento de sites católicos, umbandistas, budistas, ateus e outros. Dito isto, é importante garantir que sites que podem ajudar a contar histórias e montar narrativas interessantes estejam incluídos na lista. É mais útil, por exemplo, otimizar o processo para incluir os sites de grupos de minorias e de dissidentes políticos do que, digamos, pornografia ou jogos de azar. Se um desses últimos for bloqueado, não temos histórias tão interessantes pra contar, mas se sites de minorias forem bloqueados por exemplo há muitas organizações da imprensa e da sociedade civil que gostariam de contar essa história. É claro que é importante incluir sites de pornografia e de jogos de azar também -- porque eles são mais prováveis de serem bloqueados e podem nos ajudar a detectar bloqueios em outros sites -- mas vamos priorizar outras mais relacionadas com direitos humanos e civis. A 20-30minutos do final da atividade, vamos consolidar todas as contribuições dos diferentes grupos e categorias em uma única contribuição coletiva, em nome da CryptoRave 2017, para o repositório git <https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists>. Também faremos um teste local com as contribuições para podermos ver como a sonda conduz os testes sem ter que esperar o ciclo diário de testes das sondas OONI. ### ~Vasilis -- 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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OONI community meeting tomorrow, 25th April
by Maria Xynou 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hello! The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us *tomorrow, 25th April 2017 at 16:00 UTC, for our monthly **community meeting**.* 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 tomorrow, 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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