[ux] ACM LIMITS '17: "Limits to Internet Freedoms" mentions Tor

[Linda Naeun Lee]

David:

Thanks for the report! It's important to remind ourselves that
internationalization is important to adoption.

  Linda N. Lee
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:40 PM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com>
wrote:

> This paper is based on interviews with 100+ people in Zambia, Turkey,
> and Mongolia over a couple of years. It briefly mentions Tor and Orbot
> in a section on the limitations of existing tools for Internet freedom
> (3.2 and 3.6).
>
> "Limits to Internet Freedoms"
> Michael Nekrasov, Lisa Parks, Elizabeth Belding
> http://acmlimits.org/2017/papers/limits17-nekrasov.pdf
>
>          In our research, we found that many technically proficient
>          users knew about Tor,  but that new users found the concept
>          confusing and suffered language barriers when attempting to
>          install and use it themselves.
>
>          When discussing security in Turkey, we attempted to introduce
>          users to Tor. We found that Orbot, an Android application for
>          Tor, was not available in Turkish. This was a barrier to usage
>          as all instructions and user interfaces required explanation
>          and translation.
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