justDankin
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
We released a subset of the data along with the paper (~5K hostnames), can be accessed at https://github.com/kush789/How-India-Censors-The-Web-Data
The app uses a more updated list (roughly 10K hostnames)
Comment · 6 years ago
Unfortunately we don't have the expertise or bandwidth to make that :/
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm one of the authors of the paper in the post, we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India.
We've compiled these tests into an android app, please consider running it if you live in India and would like to contribute to the research :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.censorwatc...
It's completely anonymous, doesn't require any permissions, and does not store any user related information.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ah yes, my bad. I meant to say ESNI
Read https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_esni_blocking/en/ some time back, recalled it incorrectly
Comment · 6 years ago
You never know. Could be a mistake where they were trying to block a certain path due to some search result of copyright infringement, but ended up banning the domain itself. One can only guess.
Reddit and Github have previously been temporarily banned in India due to similar "mistakes"
Comment · 6 years ago
Well, they could block TLS1.3 entirely (which would force hosts to drop down to 1.2 for connections)
GFC does this, I really hope it doesn't happen here
Comment · 6 years ago
Haha yeah, I've been procrastinating for the last 5 years now
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes! That's a great observation
However, the reason I went for probing the entire path is because the TTL itself can be spoofed
We've built CensorWatch, an android app which crowdsources measurements of internet censorship. This allows us to study censorship from different vantage points, which would otherwise be impossible to do at our scale.
If you live in India, please consider running it! It's completely anonymous, does not store any personal information, does not require any app permissions, and can be deleted after running (takes roughly 30 minutes). More information here -- https://cis-india.github.io/censorwatch/