HotFOCI short talks, Monday August 15

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HotFOCI (Hot Topics in Free and Open Communications on the Internet) will be on Monday, 2022-08-15 at 16:00 UTC. It will be a series of 10-minute talks about new and in-progress work in Internet freedom.

Gathering space link to watch the live videos and participate in chat

Registration link

My sources tell me the topics will be (not sure if this is final):

• Applying machine learning to PRC patent filing to surface emerging human rights impacts of smart city technologies
• Censorship resistant onion association using sauteed onions
• Analyzing censorship on Chinese search engines
• Network responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
• Threats to VPNs and broader impacts to Netizens

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Paul Syverson talked about Sauteed Onions, a way of securely binding regular domain names to onion addresses.

Benjamin De Kosnik talked about tracking the extent of filesharing of Roskomnadzor leaks.

Ben Mixon-Baca of Breakpointing Bad talked about automatically extracting information that is safe to inspect from traffic captures.

Ken Kato talked about censorship on Chinese search engines.

• video
• slides

Joss Wright talked about scraping and analyzing Smart City–related patents. A report will be published in a special issue of Internet Policy Review in March 2023.