Arturo,
Any deliverables I should bill for?
Thanks, Sue
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Arturo Filastò art@torproject.org wrote:
# OONI Monthly Report: May 2017
The OONI team made steady progress in May 2017.
We released the beta version of our probe orchestration and, in collaboration with Sinar Project, we published a new research report on "The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia". We also updated test lists in collaboration with our partners, and we started organizing OONI's upcoming Partner Gathering.
## Beta release of probe orchestration
We made two beta releases of the probe orchestration backend: https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta.2.
The probe orchestration client code is being integrated inside of v0.7.0 of measurement-kit here: https://github.com/measurement-kit/measurement-kit/pull/1250.
This beta version of the backend is currently deployed (https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-sysadmin/pull/112) on staging machines and we are in the process of testing it in preparation of including a subset of orchestration inside of the next version of ooniprobe-mobile.
The feature-set included in the current beta of the probe orchestration is the following:
- Support for clients to register for receiving orchestration messages
with a password
Authentication for orchestration clients and administrators
Support for updating metadata of probes via authentication
Support for sending push notifications to iOS (Apple Push
Notifications) and Android (Firebase Cloud Messagging) devices
- A web interface for administrators that allows them to:
- View the currently registered clients
- View the currently scheduled jobs
- Add new recurrent measurements based on the target probe
In the first integration in ooniprobe-mobile we plan to only support probe registration and metadata update. This will allow us to send visibile push notification to send useful information messages to users, but without the full orchestration workflow.
## Research and improvements to reducing fingerprintability of ooniprobe
We did a bit of research documenting what we are currently doing to reduce the fingerprintability of ooniprobe and what we could do better.
As a result of this research we also added support for randomising the order in which URLs are tested (in ooniprobe desktop) to further reduce the fingerprint an ooniprobe scan has as well as improve the accuracy of measurement: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/pull/758.
## Publication of research report
In collaboration with Sinar Project, we published a new research report titled: "The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia".
The full report can be found here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/indonesia-internet-censorship/
We also published a summary of the report on the Tor blog: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/state-internet-censorship-indonesia
## Updated test lists
In May 2017 we added URLs and updated the following test lists in collaboration with partners:
Iran test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/161
Cuba test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/170
Venezuela test list:
https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/162, https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/158
- Egypt test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/164
## Organizing upcoming OONI Partner Gathering
We worked on logistics pertaining to the organization of OONI's first Partner Gathering, which will take place on 10th & 11th July 2017 in Toronto.
## Outreach and community engagement
### Events
We presented OONI at the following events:
CryptoRave (5th & 6th May 2017)
We presented OONI and co-facilitated a workshop on test lists ("Listathona") with Coding Rights at CryptoRave. More information can be found here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-cryptorave-2017/.
Tor Meeting at the Hacker Club Garoa (11th May 2017)
Our team member in Brazil also facilitated an OONI session at the Hacker Club Garoa in Sao Paolo (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/ CommunityTeam/Projects/GlobalSouth).
Open Source Conference Albania/OSCAL (13th & 14th May 2017)
We presented OONI through a 1-hour talk titled: "Free & Open Source Software for a Free & Open Internet". More information can be found here: https://eventyay.com/e/ecc2001a/schedule/
ISC Project Global Workshop (25th & 26th May)
We facilitated the following sessions at the ISC Project Global Workshop in Washington D.C:
90-minute OONI demo
Contributing to test lists & using data from OONI Explorer
Measuring internet blackouts
### Community meeting
We hosted our monthly community meeting on https://slack.openobservatory.org/ on 23rd May 2017. As part of the meeting, we discussed filtering techniques for OONI Explorer, as well as methods for tracking internet shutdowns on mobile networks.
### Article
We wrote and published an article about ooniprobe for Coding Rights' Antivigilancia newsletter: https://antivigilancia.org/es/2017/05/ooni-descubriendo-la- censura-en-internet/
## Press coverage
An article about OONI was published on Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/come-tracciare-la- censura-di-internet-con-una-app?utm_source=mbfbit
## Userbase
In May 2017 ooniprobe was run 70,218 times from 1,905 different vantage points across 162 countries around the world.
This information can also be found through our stats here: https://measurements.ooni.torproject.org/stats
~ The OONI team.
tor-project mailing list tor-project@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project