Anti-Censorship Technologies

Nart Villeneuve PHD Candidate, Senior Research Fellow

Citizen Lab , Munk Centre for International StudiesUniversity of Toronto

Censorship Circumvention

The use of censorship circumvention and anonymity technology is global.

There are a wide variety of anti-censorship tools from which to choose.

Knowing the threats one faces is critical to determining which technology to use.

# of Censors Increasing

Corporate Censors

Exporting Censorship

SmartFilter – Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Oman, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and formerly in Iran

Websense & Bluecoat – Yemen Fortinet – Myanmar/Burma

Types of Technologies

Public vs Private Free vs Pay Web-based vs Client Open Source vs Proprietary Circumvention vs Anonymity

pbs.org (Canada)

Testing through Tor

youtube.com (Thailand)

hrichina.org

resist.ca

eff.org

wikileaks.org

Google/Orkut

Yahoo!

aclu.org

Guides

Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress & Tor

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide/

Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship

http://civisec.org/guides-print.html

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26187

How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)

http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php

Blog for a Cause!

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide-blog-for-a-cause/

Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders

http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/manual/en/esecman/

NGO in a Box - Security Edition

http://security.ngoinabox.org/