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Bennett Haselton
dblp:143/5667
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2013
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Network measurement and analytics · 77% Internet architecture and protocols · 23% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Network security · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network measurement and analytics
middlebox detection |
0.2 | 1 | 2013 | A method for identifying and confirming the use of URL filtering products for censorship · Internet Measurement Conference 2013 |
Network security
censorship |
0.2 | 1 | 2013 | A method for identifying and confirming the use of URL filtering products for censorship · Internet Measurement Conference 2013 |
Internet architecture and protocols › traffic management
ISP traffic management |
0.0 | 1 | 2013 | A method for identifying and confirming the use of URL filtering products for censorship · Internet Measurement Conference 2013 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
active probing · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | A method for identifying and confirming the use of URL filtering products for censorshipabstractProducts used for managing network traffic and restricting access to Web content represent a dual-use technology. While they were designed to improve performance and protect users from inappropriate content, these products are also used to censor the Web by authoritarian regimes around the globe. This dual use has not gone unnoticed, with Western governments placing restrictions on their export. Our contribution is to present methods for identifying installations of URL filtering products and confirming their use for censorship. We first present a methodology for identifying externally visible installations of URL filtering products in ISPs around the globe. Further, we leverage the fact that many of these products accept user-submitted sites for blocking to confirm that a specific URL filtering product is being used for censorship. Using this method, we are able to confirm the use of McAfee SmartFilter in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Netsweeper in Qatar, the UAE, and Yemen. Our results show that these products are being used to block a range of content, including oppositional political speech, religious discussion and gay and lesbian material, speech generally protected by international human rights norms. Jakub Dalek, Bennett Haselton, Helmi Noman, Adam Senft, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Phillipa Gill, Ronald J. Deibert |
Internet Measurement Conference | 2 |