Internet Measurement Village – daily live streams through July 3rd

[wkrp]

The online Internet Measurement Village 2020 starts tomorrow, Wednesday 2020-06-10.

There will be a one-hour video live stream nearly every weekday, for three weeks until Friday 2020-07-03. These are talks that were meant to have happened at this year's Internet Freedom Festival, before that event was cancelled.

The streams will be broadcast on OONI's YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/OONIorg. You can try streamlink (with or without Tor) if you don't want to watch in a browser. youtube-dl also works for downloading live streams.

You can ask questions using the chat interface under the YouTube video (needs a Google account), or in Slack/IRC.

Schedule

Date	Time	Session
2020-06-10 Wed.	14:00 UTC	OONI: Measuring Internet Censorship. Maria Xynou (OONI). YouTube, slides
2020-06-11 Thu.	15:00 UTC	Test lists for measuring Internet censorship – applicability, problems and solutions. Igor Valentovitch (Netalitica). YouTube part 1, YouTube part 2, slides
2020-06-15 Mon.	14:00 UTC	M-Lab: Measuring Internet Performance. Lai Yi Ohlsen (M-Lab). YouTube, slides
2020-06-16 Tue.	14:00 UTC	How to detect outages with Mozilla telemetry. Alessio Placitelli (Mozilla). YouTube, slides
2020-06-17 Wed.	14:00 UTC	RIPE Internet Measurements. Vesna Manojlovic & Emile Aben (RIPE). YouTube, slides
2020-06-18 Thu.	14:00 UTC	KeepItOn campaign: Advocating against Internet shutdowns. Felicia Anthonio (Access Now). YouTube, slides
2020-06-19 Fri.	14:00 UTC	Circumventing Internet Censorship with Psiphon. Joe Manco (Psiphon). YouTube, slides
2020-06-22 Mon.	14:00 UTC	Advocating against Internet shutdowns in West Africa. Julie Owono (Internet Sans Frontières). YouTube, slides
2020-06-23 Tue.	09:00 UTC	Measuring Internet Censorship in Southeast Asia. Khairil Yusof (Sinar Project). YouTube, slides
2020-06-24 Wed.	14:00 UTC	How we tried to establish a nationwide Internet censorship measurement system in Ukraine. Anton Koushnir & Natalia Onyshchenko (Digital Security Lab Ukraine). YouTube, slides
2020-06-25 Thu.	14:00 UTC	Coordinación de la medición de la censura en Venezuela. Mariengracia Chirinos & Daniela Alvarado (IPYS Venezuela). YouTube, slides part 1, slides part 2
2020-06-26 Fri.	14:00 UTC	Censored Planet: Measuring Internet censorship remotely. Ram Sundara Raman (Censored Planet). YouTube, slides
2020-06-29 Mon.	14:00 UTC	Internet Censorship, DNS poisoning and Phishing in Venezuela. Andrés Azpúrua (VEsinFiltro). YouTube, slides
2020-06-30 Tue.	14:00 UTC	Circumventing Internet Censorship with Tor. Philipp Winter (Tor). YouTube, slides
2020-07-01 Wed.	14:00 UTC	ICLab: Measuring Internet Censorship. Zack Weinberg (ICLab). YouTube, slides
2020-07-02 Thu.	14:00 UTC	Circumventing Internet Censorship with TunnelBear. Shames Abdelwahab & Rodrigue Hajjar (TunnelBear). YouTube, slides
2020-07-02 Thu.	17:00 UTC	Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion. Kevin Bock (University of Maryland). YouTube, slides
2020-07-03 Fri.	17:00 UTC	IODA: Examining Internet blackouts through open data. Ramakrishna Padmanabhan (CAIDA). YouTube

[wkrp]

Starting today in 15 minutes: OONI: Measuring Internet Censorship with Maria Xynou.

• YouTube
• slides

Some links from the talk (I know I missed a few):

• https://ooni.org/nettest/
• https://ooni.org/get-involved/contribute-test-lists/
• https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists
• https://ooni.org/install/mobile
• https://ooni.org/install/desktop
• https://ooni.org/about/risks
• https://ooni.org/about/data-policy/
• https://run.ooni.io
• https://ooni.org/get-involved/run/
• https://explorer.ooni.org/
• https://api.ooni.io
• https://ooni.org/data/
• https://ooni.org/reports/

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Starting today in 5 minutes: Test lists for measuring Internet censorship – applicability, problems and solutions with Igor Valentovitch.

• YouTube part 1
• YouTube part 2 (Q&A)
• slides

Links:

• http://netalitica.com/
• https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists
• https://ooni.org/get-involved/contribute-test-lists

[wkrp]

The Internet Measurement Village continues this week. Starting today in a few minutes: M-Lab: Measuring Internet Performance with Lai Yi Ohlsen.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/
• https://ooni.org/nettest#performance
• https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/celebrating-2billion-ndt-tests/
• https://viz.measurementlab.net/
• https://www.measurementlab.net/data/docs/#querying-bigquery-basic

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Starting today in 5 minutes: How to detect outages with Mozilla telemetry with Alessio Placitelli.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2020/05/18/sharing-data-on-italys-mid-pandemic-internet-outage/
• https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/
• https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/data/main-ping.html

You can contact Alessio and the team at outages@mozilla.com.

[wkrp]

Starting today in 10 minutes: RIPE Internet Measurements with Vesna Manojlovic & Emile Aben.

• YouTube
• slides

There were many web pages linked in the talk. Here are just a few of them.

• https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/mat
• https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db
• https://atlas.ripe.net/docs
• https://labs.ripe.net/atlas
• https://ris.ripe.net/
• https://stat.ripe.net/
• https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/measuring-your-web-server-reachability-with-tcp-ping
• https://labs.ripe.net/covid19
• https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/dns-censorship-dns-lies-seen-by-atlas-probes

Somewhere in the video there is a voucher code for 1 million free RIPE Atlas credits—you'll have to watch to see what it is.

[wkrp]

Starting today in 20 minutes: #KeepItOn campaign: Advocating against Internet shutdowns with Felicia Anthonio.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/
• https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton-2019-report
• https://www.accessnow.org/no-internet-shutdowns-lets-keepiton/
• https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/1265305089427804160?s=20

You can report evidence of Internet shutdowns to shutdownalert@accessnow.org.

[wkrp]

Now in progress: Circumventing Internet Censorship with Psiphon with Joe Manco.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://psiphon.ca/
• https://psix.ca/ Psiphon Data Engine dashboard. Contact PDE@psiphon.ca for historical data or to partner with providing data to the dashboard.

You can reach Joe at j.manco@psiphon.ca.

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Starting in 15 minutes: Advocating against Internet shutdowns in West Africa with Julie Owono.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://internetwithoutborders.org/
• https://ooni.org/post/mali-disruptions-amid-2018-election/
• https://twitter.com/DynResearch/status/781483184445882368
• https://internetwithoutborders.org/victory-in-chad-access-to-social-media-restored/

[wkrp]

Starting today in 2 hours: Measuring Internet Censorship in Southeast Asia with Khairil Yusof. Note the earlier-than-normal time.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://sinarproject.org/
• https://censorship.sinarproject.org/
• https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/human-rights-internet-censorship-dashboards/initial-human-rights-censorship-dashboards
• https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/updates/the-state-of-internet-censorship-in-malaysia
• https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/kh-2018-elections/cambodia-2018-elections
• https://sinarproject.org/updates/monitoring-censorship-of-gender-related-online-content
• https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/updates/online-lgbt-censorship-malaysia
• https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/updates/open-observatory-of-network-interference-ooni-southeast-asia-regional-workshop
• https://thainetizen.org/
• https://www.facebook.com/Myanmarido/
• https://twitter.com/myanmarido
• https://ooni.org/post/thailand-internet-censorship/
• https://ooni.org/post/myanmar-report/
• https://ooni.org/post/indonesia-internet-censorship/

[wkrp]

Starting in 10 minutes: How we tried to establish a nationwide Internet censorship measurement system in Ukraine with Anton Koushnir & Natalia Onyshchenko of Digital Security Lab Ukraine.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://facebook.com/cyberlabUkraine
• https://medium.com/@cyberlabukraine
• https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tdW8zISbvk-KPo-Wf8YCtfLSuQg7J6PV CSV files of measurement results

[wkrp]

Starting in 2 minutes: Coordinación de la medición de la censura en Venezuela with Mariengracia Chirinos & Daniela Alvarado.

• YouTube
• slides part 1
• slides part 2

Links:

• https://ipysvenezuela.org/
• https://ipysvenezuela.org/2020/05/17/desconexion-y-censura-reporte-anual-derechos-digitales-ipysve-2019/
• https://ooni.org/post/venezuela-internet-censorship/
• https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2020-06-26&probe_cc=VE
• https://explorer-beta.ooni.io/
• https://run.ooni.io/

[wkrp]

Starting in 20 minutes: Censored Planet: Measuring Internet censorship remotely with Ram Sundara Raman.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://censoredplanet.org/
• https://censoredplanet.org/projects/satellite
• https://censoredplanet.org/projects/augur
• https://censoredplanet.org/projects/quack
• https://censoredplanet.org/projects/hyperquack
• https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan
• https://censoredplanet.org/observatory

You can contact the Censored Planet team at censoredplanet@umich.edu, to discuss collaboration or get an account to download raw data.

[wkrp]

Starting in 20 minutes: Internet Censorship, DNS poisoning and Phishing in Venezuela with Andrés Azpúrua.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://vesinfiltro.com/
• https://twitter.com/vesinfiltro
• https://vesinfiltro.com/noticias/state_of_internet_censorship_2018-08-16
• https://vesinfiltro.com/noticias/bloqueado_portal_coronavirus_AN
• https://vesinfiltro.com/noticias/2020-04-26-phishing_healthcare_heroes

A point that was interesting to me: in April of this year, many blocked sites became accessible shortly after a fire occurred at a building of CANTV, the largest ISP in Venezuela. Sites that had been blocked in multiple ways (DNS, HTTP, SNI) became blocked by DNS only.

• https://www.elnacional.com/venezuela/bomberos-controlaran-incendio-en-la-sede-de-cantv-del-municipio-chacao/
• https://vesinfiltro.com/noticias/2020-04-06-levantados_multiples_bloqueos_cantv

Desconocemos si el incendio afectó las capacidades de censura e interceptación de tráfico más sofisticadas de CANTV, para lo que se usan equipos especializados, si fueron desactivadas accidentalmente o como parte del proceso de mantenimiento.

We do not know whether the fire affected CANTV's censorship capacity and its more sophisticated traffic interception, which uses specialized equipment; or if they were deactivated accidentally or as part of a maintenance process.

[wkrp]

Starting in 15 minutes: Circumventing Internet Censorship with Tor with Philipp Winter.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://www.torproject.org/download/
• https://bridges.torproject.org/
  • https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en
  • https://tb-manual.torproject.org/circumvention/
  • https://tb-manual.torproject.org/bridges/
  • https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge
  • Docker image for setting up an obfs4 bridge
  • https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/
  • https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-010-1
  • Summary of Salmon
• https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
  • Number of users of obfs4, meek, and snowflake
• https://snowflake.torproject.org/
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/torproject-snowflake/
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snowflake/mafpmfcccpbjnhfhjnllmmalhifmlcie
  • Currently requires Tor Browser alpha
• Anti-censorship team weekly IRC meetings schedule
• May 2020 anti-censorship team monthly report
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger
• https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/
  • https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
• https://community.torproject.org/user-research/
  • UX team IRC meetings
  • Paper on Tor Browser's usability for circumvention (2017)
• https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/thesis/#sec:meek-history
• https://refraction.network/

[wkrp]

Starting in 15 minutes: ICLab: Measuring Internet Censorship with Zack Weinberg.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://iclab.org/
• info@iclab.org
• https://iclab.org/publication/publication_iclab_paper_oakland2020/
• https://iclab.org/publication/publication_zack_imc2018/
• https://iclab.org/publication/publication_citizenlab_yemen2015/
• https://github.com/iclab/
• https://iclab.org/post/iclab_data/
• https://archive.org/details/@iclab

[wkrp]

Starting in 10 minutes: Circumventing Internet Censorship with TunnelBear with Shames Abdelwahab & Rodrigue Hajjar.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://www.tunnelbear.com/
• community@tunnelbear.com
• https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear-transparency-report-for-2019/
• https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear-completes-2nd-annual-independent-security-audit/

[wkrp]

Starting in 10 minutes: Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion with Kevin Bock.

• YouTube
• slides

Links:

• https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/geneva_ccs19.pdf
• https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/iran-whitelister/
• https://github.com/kkevsterrr/geneva

[wkrp]

Starting in 20 minutes: IODA: Examining Internet blackouts through open data with Ramakrishna Padmanabhan.

• YouTube

Links:

• https://ioda.caida.org/
• https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard
• Ethiopia ongoing shutdown
• Syria final exams 2020 and 2019
• Iran shutdown
• Jammu and Kashmir shutdown
• Venezuela power outage
• ASN 197207 "level shift"
• Puerto Rico hurricanes
• https://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2019/residential_links_under_weather/residential_links_under_weather.pdf
• Screencast on how to use IODA dashboard