NDLI: Encore:Lightweight Measurement of Web Censorship with Cross-Origin Requests

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Burnett, Sam Feamster, Nick
Abstract	Despite the pervasiveness of Internet censorship, we have scant data on its extent, mechanisms, and evolution. Measuring censorship is challenging: it requires continual measurement of reachability to many target sites from diverse vantage points. Amassing suitable vantage points for longitudinal measurement is difficult; existing systems have achieved only small, short-lived deployments. We observe, however, that most Internet users access content via Web browsers, and the very nature of Web site design allows browsers to make requests to domains with different origins than the main Web page. We present Encore, a system that harnesses cross-origin requests to measure Web filtering from a diverse set of vantage points without requiring users to install custom software, enabling longitudinal measurements from many vantage points. We explain how Encore induces Web clients to perform cross-origin requests that measure Web filtering, design a distributed platform for scheduling and collecting these measurements, show the feasibility of a global-scale deployment with a pilot study and an analysis of potentially censored Web content, identify several cases of filtering in six months of measurements, and discuss ethical concerns that would arise with widespread deployment.
Ending Page	667
Page Count	15
Starting Page	653
File Format	WebM PDF WAV
ISSN	01464833
DOI	10.1145/2829988.2787485
Journal	ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCRV)
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	45
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1993-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Web censorship Network measurement Web security
Content Type	Audio Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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