Session:GOIBlocks - Technical observations about recent internet censorship in India

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Description Speakers: Kaustubh Srikanth & Claudio Guarnieri

On 17th December 2014, the Government of India's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology issued an order to all licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to block access to 32 websites, effective immediately. The basis of this was a claim that the targeted web services were being used for "Jihadi Propaganda" by "Anti-National groups".

As a response to this, a few technologists in Berlin got together and thought it would be a good idea to do some research using free and accessible tools and to look at how censorship has been implemented, as well as the various techniques that could be used to circumvent this censorship. This talk will discuss our findings and make recommendations about how ISPs can handle such censorship requests better, while being fair and transparent to their customers.

Website(s) http://www.huffingtonpost.in/kaustubh-srikanth/technical-observations-ab b 6421306.html, https://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2015/01/14/india-and-goiblocks-a-lesson-for-isps-when-facing-censorship-orders/
Type Talk
Kids session No
Keyword(s) political, software, security
Tags censorship
Processing village Village:La Quadrature du Camp
Person organizing User:Houndbee
Language en - English
en - English
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Starts at 2015/08/17 16:00
Ends at 2015/08/17 17:00
Duration 60 minutes
Location Village:La Quadrature du Camp