Hello!
The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us**for our *monthly
**community meeting tomorrow**on Tuesday, 25th July 2017, at 14:00 UTC.*
We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how to improve
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Thank you so much for publishing an article on installing ooni-probe it’s great stuff!
I am moving this thread over to ooni-dev as ooni-operators is actually meant for just important communications to operators of ooniprobe instances.
What Vasilis says is mostly correct, just a couple of minor corrections.
On July 1, 2017 at 3:14:24 PM, Vasilis (andz(a)torproject.org) wrote:
Hi Snehan,
Snehan Kekre:
> Hello excellent ooni people,
>
> I've written a blog post (https://snehankekre.github.io/anti-censorCHIP)
> about installing ooniprobe on a $9 computer called CHIP that runs a flavor
> of Debian.
Thank you for your good words and publishing a blog post about
installing ooniprobe on CHIP.
> I would appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or comments. I'll
> use them to make necessary changes to reflect accurate delivery. I've used
> some images and a lot of lines from the ooni website.
The 4th step in the install section of the blog post
(https://snehankekre.github.io/anti-censorCHIP#installing-ooniprobe-on-chip)
is not needed since Step 3 will get all the available dependencies.
However given that are a number of bugs
(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues?q=label%3Adebian+is%3Aop…)
in the Debian ooniprobe packages, I will suggest you instead to install
ooniprobe with pip and use the following install guide:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe#unix-systems-with-pip
As Vasilis points out you don’t actually need to install those extra dependencies via pip and are already part of the package installation, however you should NOT install ooniprobe via pip as it’s not the best way to install packages that will run as root.
The issues with the debian package are being actively worked on and I have some sample debian packages if you would like to try them out (https://github.com/hellais/ooniprobe-fpm#debian) and as soon as they are ready the canonical torproject debian package will be updated and all the outstading issues should be resolved.
In the Step 5. you don’t actually need to run oonideckgen, but you can directly find the location of your decks by running ooniprobe --info ,it should be in /var/lib/ooni/decks.
Usually ooniprobe is more useful when it performs regular (scheduled)
network measurements, I will suggest you to add the following steps to
the install guide:
1. Configure ooniprobe
(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe#configuring-ooniprobe),
either via the GUI (setup wizard) or from the shell (ooniprobe initialize)
2. Add ooniprobe system service
(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe#run-ooniprobe-as-a-service-syst…)
Yes this is indeed the recommended way of running it, in theory that should already be setup for you by using the debian package (but due to the debian package bugs vasilis pointed out is currently not happening).
> Is there a standard format to provide credit to ooni devs?
Everything published on the website is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC BY 3.0).
~ Arturo
Hello!
The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us**for our *monthly
**community meeting**on Wednesday, 28th June 2017, at 13:00 UTC.*
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, 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/
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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.
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Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
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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
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/
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