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5 papers
Online Political Discourse in the Trump Era
Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill
We identify general trends in the (in)civility and complexity of political discussions occurring on Reddit between January 2007 and May 2017 -- a period spanning both terms of Bara…
Measuring Offensive Speech in Online Political Discourse
Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner, Phillipa Gill
The Internet and online forums such as Reddit have become an increasingly popular medium for citizens to engage in political conversations. However, the online disinhibition effect…
A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level Path Churn and Network Tomography
Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah +1
Recent years have seen the Internet become a key vehicle for citizens around the globe to express political opinions and organize protests. This fact has not gone unnoticed, with c…
Holding all the ASes: Identifying and Circumventing the Pitfalls of AS-aware Tor Client Design
Rishab Nithyanand, Rachee Singh, Shinyoung Cho +1
Traffic correlation attacks to de-anonymize Tor users are possible when an adversary is in a position to observe traffic entering and exiting the Tor network. Recent work has broug…
Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel
Bridger Hahn, Rishab Nithyanand, Phillipa Gill +1
The Internet has become a critical communication infrastructure for citizens to organize protests and express dissatisfaction with their governments. This fact has not gone unnotic…