Research lab at @UMich investigating and exposing various types of privacy, security and geo-based violations and censorship. Join us!

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined June 2017
For the past years, Censored Planet, in partnership with @Jigsaw and @googlecloud, has been dedicated to developing a data analysis pipeline and dashboard. Leveraging Google Cloud services, we've made our data more accessible. twtr.to/hHhsK twtr.to/2cWLe
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Are you attending the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2023? Join us for a Hackathon on Network Interference using Open Data (w/ @isoc_pulse @MeasurementLab @CensoredPlanet )! 🐙 • When: 23rd October 2023 • Where: Montreal • Learn more: ooni.org/post/2023-imc-hacka… #IMC2023
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CERTainty has already been integrated into large-scale measurement platforms like @CensoredPlanet to great effect! We find that relying on certificates provides more accurate results with less manual effort required.
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Excited to attend #FOCI2023 and #PETS2023 in person this week! @MustbeElisa will be presenting our paper on detecting DNS manipulation using TLS certificate information on Thursday, July 13! Come find us in Section 7B!
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As #internetcensorship becomes more prevalent, there is an increased need for practical ways to interpret network measurement data; this helps journalists, policymakers, researchers, and advocacy groups understand the #censorship ecosystem. bit.ly/3NZqbGF 🧵
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📢 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022 was followed by a torrent of Internet sanctions and restrictions. Our latest work @USENIXSecurity investigates changes to Russia’s network in the weeks following the invasion. (1/n) 👉 censoredplanet.org/assets/ru…
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📢📢 Read our new multi-perspective study on network changes in Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
📢 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022 was followed by a torrent of Internet sanctions and restrictions. Our latest work @USENIXSecurity investigates changes to Russia’s network in the weeks following the invasion. (1/n) 👉 censoredplanet.org/assets/ru…
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As of today, last year, Russia started its military operation in Ukraine. Today, in collaboration w/ @RuBlackListNET, we published a new report documenting how Internet censorship changed in #Russia over the last year based on OONI data analysis. ooni.org/post/2023-russia-a-… 🧵
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📢 New work from Censored Planet about improving censorship data analysis! Read the paper: censoredplanet.org/assets/ce… Try our the Censored Planet dashboard: dashboard.censoredplanet.org
Today at #FOCI2023, I will be presenting our work on identifying key challenges in censorship data analysis and building @CensoredPlanet tools to resolve them. This work is a collaboration between researchers @CensoredPlanet and @Jigsaw. Read our paper: censoredplanet.org/assets/ce…
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Today at #FOCI23, Jigsaw's @vinifortuna and Sarah Laplante with @CensoredPlanet team @UMich unveiled a new research paper that provides a detailed breakdown of the key challenges of analyzing #censorship measurement data. 🧵 Read the paper here: bit.ly/3Il8ltx
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📢📢📢 @CensoredPlanet is now accepting applications for the 2023 @OpenTechFund ICFP Fellowship: censoredplanet.org/icfp23. Join our team and make a difference while working on research regarding internet freedom. Diverse applicants welcome. Apply now!
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ICFP Fellow Ramakrishnan Sundara Raman was awarded the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize for his work in applied networking research on censorship devices. The prize allows Ram to present his work in front of a wide community of engineers and policy makers. Congrats Ram!
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Great news to start the new year! 🎉 Super happy and excited that I have been awarded the IRTF applied networking research prize for our work on profiling censorship devices!
Six researchers have been announced as new #ANRP awardees this year for recent results in applied networking research and interesting new research of potential relevance to the Internet standards community. Read about the wide range of topics at: ietf.org/blog/anrp-2023/
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📣 Read about our recent work on studying the technology behind censorship!
Today at CoNEXT 2022, @m0namon and I will be presenting our work on locating and examining network devices used for censorship. 📢📢Read all about our work here: censoredplanet.org/censorshi…
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Today is OONI's 10th Anniversary! 🥳🎂😍 As of today, 10 years ago, the 1st OONI measurement was published! 🐙 Now, more than a billion measurements have been published from 25 thousand networks in 241 countries 🌍 ...and that's all thanks to our AMAZING COMMUNITY! 🥹❤️🥂
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📣Read this amazing report on recent Internet restrictions in Iran with data from numerous awesome collaborators #KeepitOn
Technical multi-stakeholder report on Internet shutdowns: The case of #Iran amid autumn 2022 protests ooni.org/post/2022-iran-tech… In collaboration w/ @gatech_ioda @MeasurementLab @CensoredPlanet @CloudflareRadar @kentikinc @internetsociety @article19org. #KeepitOn
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NEW RESEARCH: Watch how NSO Group's zero-click attacks have evolved over recent years. Joint research by @AmnestyTech and @billmarczak (@citizenlab) presented at @VirusBtn. Exploit archaeology: A forensic history of in-the-wild NSO Group exploits youtu.be/NvS67qiq8bw?t=1
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🟢 Launched: New Test Lists Editor! 🎉😍 ooni.org/post/2022-test-list… Contribute websites for censorship testing: test-lists.ooni.org/ 🐙 User guide: ooni.org/post/2022-test-list… ✨ #ooni #launch
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Thank you to everyone @PET_Symposium HotPETs for this award! 🎉 Kudos to presenters @ohnosaurus and @_aagix and everybody else on the team: @avirkud4 @MustbeElisa @yaeleiger @vinifortuna @royaensafi. #hotpets22 #pets22
The Best HotPETs talk is Improving Usability of Internet Censorship Data through a Censorship Dashboard by @ramakrishnan13s from the University of Michigan ! #hotpets22 #pets22
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