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Thank you so much, #FOCI2024!! "Going beyond the call of duty as Tor community team lead, tireless and extensive outreach with censorship resistance research and development and for relay operator communities, and bringing positivity to interpersonal interactions." 💜💜💜💜💜😄

Very proud to announce our paper “Digital Discrimination of Users in Sanctioned States: The Case of the Cuba Embargo” from USENIX Security with Anna Ablove, Roya Ensafi and her team at Michigan was given a Distinguished Paper Award. Thread.

Q&A: Recent research fellow, Hieu Le, who worked within Prof. Roya Ensafi’s Censored Planet group, has just departed Michigan for a position in Washington DC at the US Federal Trade Commission. 👇Learn what he'll be doing: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/censor…

School is about to start! A reminder (to myself included!) that the joy is in the process, not just the outcomes. Instead of focusing on grades & published papers, let’s focus on what we learn, the people we interact with, and the journey itself. Here’s to another great year! 🎉

CloudFlare has enabled Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) support on some of the hosted domains. The single configuration is used for every domain, with cloudflare-ech.com as a canary domain (used in TLS SNI).

CSE is pleased to announce recent alumni from our PhD program who've accepted positions as faculty at institutions of higher learning. Congrats to all! Click below to view a list of these new faculty 🔽 cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/these-…

NEW: I'm *very excited* to announce my forthcoming book, "Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy," with Simon & Schuster CA Publication date: Feb 4, 2025! Details (including pre-order information) below: simonandschuster.ca/books/Chasing-…

Meet the BKC 24-25 fellows! Maria Xynou is the long-time director of OONI. As a fellow, she will study the global internet censorship landscape, while exploring the role of advocacy and circumvention tool groups. Learn more about the cohort at brk.mn/2425fellows

📢 Today, in collaboration w/ Eurasian Digital Foundation & Internet Freedom Kazakhstan, we co-published a new research report documenting TLS MITM attacks & various blocks in #Kazakhstan. Read our report in: • English: ooni.org/post/2024-kaza… • Russian: ooni.org/ru/post/2024-k… 🧵

CALL FOR PAPERS: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) 2025 is looking for two, four, and eight-page submissions on topics broadly relating to Internet freedom. Deadline for Issue 1 (virtual event) is November 8. Learn more: foci.community/#cfp

📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position Inria to join my team! The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024. 👉 More info here: www-sop.inria.fr/members/Natali…

I'll be recruiting PhD students this cycle! If you're interested in working at the intersection of cryptography, differential privacy, and ML, please reach out. I'll also be at ACM CCS 2024 next week—find me if you'd like to chat! RTs appreciated 🙏

⏳1 week left to apply to Open Technology Fund's Surge & Sustain Fund! The Fund provides resources to help open source, large-scale VPNs and other anti-censorship tools sustain current users and respond to growing demand for their tools. Deadline: Oct 30 ow.ly/J4wn50TqjUF

✨Vinton G. Cerf will be giving the 22nd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture! 🗓️Join us on Nov 8 to hear him speak on the "Implications of Our Dependence on a Digital Ecosystem." ⭐vinton g cerf ⭐ #UMCSE #UMEECS 👉 Event details: cse.engin.umich.edu/event/implicat…

Very excited to finally launch this new tool free and open to the public! We've been working on this for a while. The CLM enables everyone to explore latencies between 100+ cloud regions around the world!

.Harry Oppenheimer (HarryOppy.bsky.social), Anna Ablove, and Roya Ensafi explore the threat to digital equality posed by websites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions, and provide recommendations for combatting this widespread practice. lawfaremedia.org/article/how-ge…

🌍 International applications for our Knight-Wallace Fellowships for the '25-'26 academic year are CLOSING SOON! 📣 Apply now and take the next step in your journalism journey! 🚀✍️ #KnightWallaceFellowships #WallaceHouse

…. Banned books … thanks The Citizen Lab team and my great friends for this amazing report 👉 identified three major censorship blocklists which Amazon assigns to different regions Big tech must be more transparent about their censorship practices

It's arrived!

CSE PhD student Diwen Xue has received a 🏆 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship award recognizing his outstanding research accomplishments and his work on internet security and measurement. 👇Click below for more on Diwen's research [article]: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/diwen-…