Circumvention
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 17th, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 17/Jun/2011; tagged in Canada, Iran, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Turkey, Qatar, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Circumvention, Cybercrime and security, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Amazon’s Kindle Bypasses the Great Firewall of China
The South China Morning Post recently reported that Kindle users can access banned websites in mainland China from the device. With Amazon’s electronic book gadget, Kindle users can now visit Facebook and Twitter, both currently blocked by the Chinese government....
ONI Blog: Egypt Bans Pornography Web sites
An Egyptian court has recently banned pornography Web sites, labeling them "venomous and vile," according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Egypt, which strictly bans offline pornography, already has a regulation which requires Internet cafe users to sign a form saying...
- Posted on 12/May/2009; tagged in Egypt, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Circumvention, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Iran and Web Proxies
Iran’s Internet censorship regime is generally accepted to be one of the most aggressive in the world, yet according to the New York Times, by autumn 2008, more than 400,000 Iranians were able to access an uncensored web thanks to a...
- Posted on 06/May/2009; tagged in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention, Internet tools filtering, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Global Voices blogpost: Flickr users vs. The State
Blogger and Global Voices contributor Sami Ben Gharbia chats with Iranian Hamed Saber about his innovative method for bypassing the ban on Flickr.com -- a popular photo-archive website site blocked in Iran and the UAE. ...
ONI Blog: Psiphon to offer way around Web censorship
On December 1 the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab will release psiphon -- free software that will enable Internet users around the world to circumvent government censorship of the Web. Read NY Times article. ...
- Posted on 29/Nov/2006; tagged in Circumvention
Report: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
Advisory 001
Last modified: May 5, 2004
I. Executive Summary
Internet access in Iran is subject to official censorship. Iranian authorities' guidelines for ISPs and users reportedly warn them to avoid all content seen as being in breach of social and cultural norms.[1]...
- Posted on 04/May/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention
ONI Blog: Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The IBB's Anonymizer Service in Iran
ONI testing found that filters built in to the IBB Anonymizer service block access to numerous non-pornographic pages and sites. Some of these apparently unintentionally blocked sites are themselves blocked within Iran, resulting in a situation where sites are effectively doubly blocked...
- Posted on 03/May/2004; tagged in Iran, United States of America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention
