CS858 - Internet Censorship and Surveillance - Winter 2022
Schedule & Reading List
| Introduction | ||
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| Week 1 Introduction to the course |
Jan 6 | |
| Introduction to the course | ||
| Censorship and Surveillance | ||
| Week 2 Overview |
Jan 11 | Jan 13 |
| The Dangers of Surveillance N. M. Richards [Harvard Law Review'13] |
A Survey of Anonymous Communication Channels G. Danezis, C. Diaz [TechReport'08] |
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| Inferring Mechanics of Web Censorship Around the World J. Verkamp, M. Gupta [FOCI'12] |
SoK: Making Sense of Censorship Resistance Systems
S. Khattak, T. Elahi, L. Simon, C. M. Swanson, S. J. Murdoch, I. Goldberg [PoPETs'16] |
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| Censorship Circumvention | ||
| Week 3 Obfuscation |
Jan 18 | Jan 20 |
| StegoTorus: a camouflage proxy for the Tor anonymity system Z. Weinberg, J. Wang, V. Yegneswaran, L. Briesemeister, S. Cheung, F. Wang, D. Boneh [CCS'12] |
Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel B. Hahn, R. Nithyanand, P. Gill, R. Johnson [EuroS&P'16] |
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| ScrambleSuit: A Polymorph Network Protocol to Circumvent Censorship P. Winter, T. Pulls, J. Fuss [WPES'13] |
Matryoshka: Hiding Secret Communication in Plain Sight I. Safaka, C. Fragouli, K. Argyraki [FOCI'16] |
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| Week 4 Obfuscation (multimedia) |
Jan 25 | Jan 27 |
| SkypeMorph: Protocol Obfuscation for Tor Bridges H. Mohajeri Moghaddam, B. Li, M. Derakhshani, I. Goldberg [CCS'12] |
DeltaShaper: Enabling Unobservable Censorship-resistant TCP Tunneling over Videoconferencing Streams D. Barradas, N. Santos, L. Rodrigues [PoPETs'17] |
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| The Parrot is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications A. Houmansadr, C. Brubaker, V. Shmatikov [S&P'13] |
Poking a Hole in the Wall: Efficient Censorship-Resistant Internet Communications by Parasitizing on WebRTC D. Barradas, N. Santos, L. Rodrigues, V. Nunes [CCS'20] |
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| Week 5 Decoy Routing |
Feb 1 | Feb 3 |
| Project proposal due. | Telex: Anticensorship in the network infrastructure E. Wustrow, S. Wolchok, I. Goldberg, J. A. Halderman [Sec'11] |
Routing Around Decoys M. Schuchard, J. Geddes, C. Thompson, N. Hopper [CCS'12] |
| Slitheen: Perfectly Imitated Decoy Routing through Traffic Replacement C. Bocovich, I. Goldberg [CCS'16] |
No Direction Home: The True Cost of Routing Around Decoys A. Houmansadr, E. L. Wong, V. Shmatikov [NDSS'14] |
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| Week 6 Clever Tools |
Feb 8 | Feb 10 |
| Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting D. Fifield, C. Lan, R. Hynes, P. Wegmann, V. Paxson [PoPETs'15] |
Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies D. Fifield, N. Hardison, J. Ellithorpe, E. Stark, R. Dingledine, P. Porras, D. Boneh [PoPETs'12] |
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| Practical Censorship Evasion Leveraging Content Delivery Networks H. Zolfaghari, A. Houmansadr [CCS'16] |
Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion Strategies K. Bock, G. Hughey, X. Qiang, D. Levin [CCS'19] |
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| Internet Blackouts | ||
| Week 7 Blackouts |
Feb 15 | Feb 17 |
| Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship A. Dainotti, C. Squarcella, E. Aben, K. C. Claffy, M. Chiesa, M. Russo, A. Pescapé [IMC'11] |
Rangzen: Anonymously Getting The Word Out In a Blackout A. Lerner, G. Fanti, Y. Ben-David, J. Garcia, P. Schmitt, B. Raghavan [arXiv'16] |
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| Building Dissent Networks: Towards Effective Countermeasures against Large-Scale Communications Blackouts S. Hasan, Y. Ben-David, G. Fanti, E. Brewer, S. Shenker [FOCI'13] |
Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis of a Delay-Tolerant Network for Censorship-Resistant Communication Y. Liu, D. R. Bild, D. Adrian, G. Singh, R. P. Dick, D. S. Wallach, Z. Morley Mao [MobiHoc'15] |
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| Week 8 No classes - Reading Week |
Feb 22 | Feb 24 |
| Week 9 No classes - Conf. Travel |
Mar 1 | Mar 3 |
| Work on project report. Report due. |
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| Censorship Measurements | ||
| Week 10 Ethics and Measurements |
Mar 8 | Mar 10 |
| Can Censorship Measurements Be Safe(r)? B. Jones, N. Feamster [HotNets'15] |
Augur: Internet-Wide Detection of Connectivity Disruptions P. Pearce, R. Ensafi, F. Li, N. Feamster, V. Paxson [S&P'17] |
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| Forgive Us our SYNs: Technical and Ethical Considerations for Measuring
Internet Filtering J. R. Crandall, M. Crete-Nishihata, J. Knockel [NSEthics'15] |
Satellite: Joint Analysis of CDNs and Network-Level Interference W. Scott, T. Anderson, T. Kohno, and A. Krishnamurthy [ATC'16] |
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| Week 11 Planet-scale Measurements |
Mar 15 | Mar 17 |
| Quack: Scalable Remote Measurement of Application-Layer Censorship B. VanderSloot, A. McDonald, W. Scott, J. A. Halderman, R. Ensafi [Sec'18] |
ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform A. A. Niaki, S. Cho, Z. Weinberg, N. P. Hoang, A. Razaghpanah, N. Christin, P. Gill [S&P'20] |
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| OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference A. Filastò, J. Appelbaum [FOCI'12] |
Censored Planet: An Internet-wide, Longitudinal Censorship Observatory R. S. Raman, P. Shenoy, K. Kohls, R. Ensafi [CCS'20] |
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| Censored Topics | ||
| Week 12 Censored Topics |
Mar 22 | Mar 24 |
| Tweeting Under Pressure: Analyzing Trending Topics and
Evolving Word Choice on Sina Weibo L. Chen, C. Zhang, C. Wilson [COSN'13] |
Topics of Controversy: An Empirical Analysis of Web Censorship Lists Z. Weinberg, M. Sharif, J. Szurdi, N. Christin [PoPETs'17] |
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| Every Rose Has Its Thorn: Censorship and Surveillance on Social Video Platforms in China J. Knockel, M. Crete-Nishihata, J. Q. Ng, A. Senft, J. R. Crandall [FOCI'15] |
Chinese Wall or Swiss Cheese? Keyword filtering in the Great Firewall of China R. Rambert, Z. Weinberg, D. Barradas, N. Christin [TheWebConf'21] |
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| Project Presentations | ||
| Week 13 |
Mar 29 | Mar 31 |
| No class | Catch-up Presentations | |
| Week 14 Project Presentations |
Apr 5 | Apr 7 |
| Final report due April 14. | Project presentations | Project presentations |