ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform
| Autor: | Phillipa Gill, Abbas Razaghpanah, Zachary Weinberg, Shinyoung Cho, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Nicolas Christin, Arian Akhavan Niaki |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Computer Science - Cryptography and Security Transmission Control Protocol Computer science media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Computer security Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture Computer Science - Computers and Society Server Web page Computers and Society (cs.CY) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Block (data storage) media_common Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) business.industry Censorship 020206 networking & telecommunications Computer Science - Social and Information Networks Internet censorship Malware 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing The Internet business computer Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy |
| Popis: | Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time and/or a few countries; the few exceptions have traded off detail for breadth of coverage. Collecting enough data for a comprehensive, global, longitudinal perspective remains challenging. In this work, we present ICLab, an Internet measurement platform specialized for censorship research. It achieves a new balance between breadth of coverage and detail of measurements, by using commercial VPNs as vantage points distributed around the world. ICLab has been operated continuously since late 2016. It can currently detect DNS manipulation and TCP packet injection, and overt "block pages" however they are delivered. ICLab records and archives raw observations in detail, making retrospective analysis with new techniques possible. At every stage of processing, ICLab seeks to minimize false positives and manual validation. Within 53,906,532 measurements of individual web pages, collected by ICLab in 2017 and 2018, we observe blocking of 3,602 unique URLs in 60 countries. Using this data, we compare how different blocking techniques are deployed in different regions and/or against different types of content. Our longitudinal monitoring pinpoints changes in censorship in India and Turkey concurrent with political shifts, and our clustering techniques discover 48 previously unknown block pages. ICLab's broad and detailed measurements also expose other forms of network interference, such as surveillance and malware injection. To appear in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2020). San Francisco, CA. May 2020 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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