{"id":8416,"date":"2014-11-21T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:01","slug":"lessons-on-censorship-from-syrias-internet-filter-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/21\/lessons-on-censorship-from-syrias-internet-filter-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons on censorship from Syria’s internet filter machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We cannot hope to record all the possible censorship-triggering events, so our understanding of what is or isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t acceptable to the censor will only ever be partial. And of course it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s risky, even outright illegal, to probe the censor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s limits within countries with strict censorship and surveillance programs.<\/p>\n

This is why\u00c2\u00a0the leak of 600GB of logs<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0from hardware appliances used to filter internet traffic in and out of Syria is a unique opportunity to examine the workings of a real-world internet censorship apparatus….<\/p>\n

At the recent\u00c2\u00a0ACM Internet Measurement Conference<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0we presented ou rpaper<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0detailing the relatively stealthy but targeted censorship system that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d found from examining the logs.<\/p>\n

Internet traffic in Syria was filtered in several ways. IP addresses (the unique addresses of web servers on the internet) and domain names (the URL typed into the address bar) were filtered to block single websites such as badoo.com or amazon.com, entire network regions (including a few Israeli subnets), or keywords to target specific content. Instant messaging, tools such as Skype, and content-sharing sites such as Metacafe or Reddit were heavily censored. Social media censoring was limited to specific content and pages, such as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Syrian Revolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d facebook page.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lessons on censorship from Syria’s internet filter machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discover the details of the relatively stealthy but targeted internet-censorship system that exists in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[283,938,263,998],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-censorship","tag-infrastructure","tag-internet","tag-syrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}