2 papers
cs.NI2018
A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability
Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson +3
This paper examines different reasons the websites may vary in their availability by location. Prior works on availability mostly focus on censorship by nation states. We look at t…
cs.NI2018
Exploring Server-side Blocking of Regions
Sadia Afroz, Michael Carl Tschantz, Shaarif Sajid +3
One of the Internet's greatest strengths is the degree to which it facilitates access to any of its resources from users anywhere in the world. However, users in the developing wor…