[liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

[Ronald Deibert]

Hi

Just to add to the data and conversation, we (Citizen Lab as part of our contribution to the ONI Project)
did a few recent updates to our reports on Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Burma.  These reports and the results are presented here:

http://opennet.net/blog/2012/11/update-information-controls-ethiopia

http://opennet.net/blog/2012/10/update-information-controls-burma

http://opennet.net/blog/2012/09/update-threats-freedom-expression-online-vietnam

An earlier report of the Citizen Lab also confirmed Blue Coat devices in use in Burma here:

https://citizenlab.org/2011/11/behind-blue-coat/


Regards
Ron

On 2012-12-31, at 8:45 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

> Eric S Johnson:
>> For the record, Burma/Myanmar (MM) has very little cybercensorship
>> now (the previous censorship started loosening up in about August
>> 2011 and was basically—not entirely, but mostly—dropped by the end of
>> October 2011).
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just returned from Burma in the last month.
> 
> There is total surveillance in Burma on the commercial YTP ISP. They
> censor plenty of sites and their BlueCoat proxy devices fail to deliver
> content for unblocked sites often. The other networks seem rather under
> surveillance as well and they also have censorship.
> 
> We (OONI) have data from my trip there and it includes all of the major
> networks. We'll write it up and publish all of it soon.
> 
>> I’ve been visiting MM since the mid-aughts and have never encountered
>> FidoNet there. Haven’t seen it since Africa, mid-nineties. But that
>> doesn’t mean it wasn’t/isn’t there.
>> 
> 
> I haven't seen FidoNet but I did see lots of WiMax, VSAT, GSM/CDMA and
> even some discussion of X.25, etc.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> (Vietnam still has a measurable amount of online censorship, but it’s
>> not nearly as heavy-handed as China’s or Iran’s. It’s more like
>> Ethiopia’s.
>> 
> 
> Ethiopia has extremely sophisticated censorship:
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethiopia-introduces-deep-packet-inspection
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-censorship-ethiopia
> 
>> Some of Cambodia’s ~30 ISPs censor a half-dozen sites, but that’s
>> hardly serious (the largest, Vietnamese-controlled, ISP doesn’t!).)
>> 
> 
> The serious problem is the infrastructure even if today it is only used
> on a few sites.
> 
> All the best,
> Jake
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Ronald Deibert
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