3 papers
cs.CR2026
Understanding the "Airport" Censorship Circumvention Ecosystem in China
Rumaisa Habib, Mingshi Wu, Shiva Shahandeh +3
In China, a burgeoning underground market sells citizens subscription-based censorship circumvention proxies known as ''airports''. We present the first systematic study of this ec…
cs.CR2026
CensorLess: Cost-Efficient Censorship Circumvention Through Serverless Cloud Functions
Dayeon Kang, Jade Sheffey, Mingshi Wu +2
With the increase in Internet censorship globally, various circumvention tools have been designed and developed. However, the monetary cost of these tools deeply impacts both user…
cs.CL2025
R1dacted: Investigating Local Censorship in DeepSeek's R1 Language Model
Ali Naseh, Harsh Chaudhari, Jaechul Roh +3
DeepSeek recently released R1, a high-performing large language model (LLM) optimized for reasoning tasks. Despite its efficient training pipeline, R1 achieves competitive performa…