3 papers
cs.CR2019
Analysing Censorship Circumvention with VPNs via DNS Cache Snooping
Oliver Farnan, Alexander Darer, Joss Wright
Anecdotal evidence suggests an increasing number of people are turning to VPN services for the properties of privacy, anonymity and free communication over the internet. Despite th…
cs.CY2018
Automated Discovery of Internet Censorship by Web Crawling
Alexander Darer, Oliver Farnan, Joss Wright
Censorship of the Internet is widespread around the world. As access to the web becomes increasingly ubiquitous, filtering of this resource becomes more pervasive. Transparency abo…
cs.CY2017
FilteredWeb: A Framework for the Automated Search-Based Discovery of Blocked URLs
Alexander Darer, Oliver Farnan, Joss Wright
Various methods have been proposed for creating and maintaining lists of potentially filtered URLs to allow for measurement of ongoing internet censorship around the world. Whilst…