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most citedAutomated Discovery of Internet Censorship by Web Crawling

5 citations · 9 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 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★ 5 cited

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…

cs.CY2015★ 4 cited

On Identifying Anomalies in Tor Usage with Applications in Detecting Internet Censorship

Joss Wright, Alexander Darer, Oliver Farnan

We develop a means to detect ongoing per-country anomalies in the daily usage metrics of the Tor anonymous communication network, and demonstrate the applicability of this techniqu…

cs.AI2013

A Cellular Automaton Based Controller for a Ms. Pac-Man Agent

Alexander Darer, Peter Lewis

Video games can be used as an excellent test bed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. They are challenging and non-deterministic, this makes it very difficult to write stro…