Measurement

Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering

We present the first global study of connection tampering through a passive analysis of traffic received at a global CDN, Cloudflare. Our study shows that passive measurement can be a powerful complement to active measurement in understanding connection tampering and improving transparency.

Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan’s Internet Censorship: A Case Study in Large-Scale Measurements of a Low-Penetration Country

Since 2006, Turkmenistan has been listed as one of the few Internet enemies by Reporters without Borders due to its extensively censored Internet and strictly regulated information control policies, but it is difficult to study due to its small population and low internet penetration rate. In this paper, we present the largest measurement study to date of Turkmenistan’s Web censorship. We apply our tool TMC to 15.5M domains, our results reveal that Turkmenistan censors more than 122K domains, using different blocklists for each protocol. We also reverse-engineer these censored domains, identifying 6K over-blocking rules causing incidental filtering of more than 5.4M domains.