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 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deib...@utoronto.ca
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