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✴︎ blogForeign Policy Article on Saudi Black Market
I honestly can’t remember giving this interview, but I must have because there’s a quotation that sounds like something I’d say in this short Foreign Policy article on a black market for net access in Saudi Arabia. Two notes of clarification: I’m not the Exec Director of the OpenNet Initiative. There isn’t one. I’m one…
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✴︎ blogUAE Internet Filtering Study
Internet Filtering in the United Arab Emirates in 2004-2005: A Country Study The OpenNet Initiative announces the release of its study documenting Internet filtering in the United Arab Emirates. ONI tested over 8000 Web sites in the past six months, finding that UAE blocks material viewed as culturally inappropriate or offensive to the state’s perception…
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✴︎ blogMore Kyrgyz Internet Hacking and DDOS attacks
We released two more press releases on the OpenNet Initiative’s ongoing investigations into the Kyrgyz Internet. Hard to disentangle what exactly is going on. Nart has some further information. And we’ll release a full report before the end of March.
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✴︎ blogHacking the Kyrgyz Internet during Parliamentary Elections
Our ONI team has just put out this press release on the Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, which we monitored from afar and in the field. Websites belonging to political parties and independent media were subject to unexplained technical failures and deliberate hacking that suggest a deliberate attempt to interfere with the functioning of the Internet during…
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✴︎ blogSouth Korean Internet Filtering Runs Amok
Another bulletin from the OpenNet Initiative, this time on South Korean Internet filtering. It appears that the government’s attempt to block its citizens access to North Korean websites also mistakenly blocks some 3000 other sites as well.
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✴︎ blogChinese Blogs Filtered
Our OpenNet Initiative project has just released another Bulletin on the filtering of blogs in China. It appears that there is variation among the blog providers, and we point out some ways in which the filtering systems, in their present form, can be easily circumvented.
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative News Coverage in the NY Times and TechNews
The OpenNet Initiative has been getting some good recent press, with a mention of our research on China in the NY Times and a comment by the Citizen Lab’s Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve in TechNewsWorld.
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✴︎ blogInterrogating Saudi Arabian Filtering of the Internet
We at the OpenNet Initiative have just released a new report on Internet content filtering in Saudi Arabia. Probably the most interesting result is the identification of commercial filtering software through “fingerprint” errors.
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✴︎ blogGeorgewbush.com Geolocational Filtering
We just released another Bulletin (007), this one examining the rather curious geolocation filtering by the official georgewbush.com website. It seems for security reasons they didn’t want these countries looking at their website. Not sure anyone there would have wanted to look at it anyway, but if they did they could have just used the…
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✴︎ blogCJFE/IFEX Panel
I participated in a panel organized by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and World Press Photo 04 on October 13 to discuss how the Internet is being policed and the impact this has on freedom of expression. Part of the events surrounding the World Press Photo exhibit in Toronto.