Publications related to Internet censorship

Planetary-Scale Byzantine Fault Tolerance

The scale and pervasiveness of the Internet make it a pillar of planetary communication, industry and economy, as well as a fundamental medium for public discourse and democratic engagement. In stark contrast with the Internet's decentralized infrastructur ...

EPFL2024

Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering

Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino

In-network devices around the world monitor and tamper with connections for many reasons, including intrusion prevention, combating spam or phishing, and country-level censorship. Connection tampering seeks to block access to specific domain names or keywo ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Toward Mobile Distributed Ledgers

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos, Anurag Jain

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for new types of distributed applications that can be executed solely by mobile devices on Device-to-Device (D2D) ecosystems (e.g., crowdsensing). Sophisticated applications, like cryptocurrencies, need distr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Verification of Software Network Functions with No Verification Expertise

Arseniy Zaostrovnykh

Software network functions (NFs), such as a network address translator, load balancer, or proxy, promise to bring flexibility and rapid innovation to computer networks and to reduce operational costs. However, continuous updates and flexibility typically c ...

EPFL2020

Encrypted DNS double right arrow Privacy? A Traffic Analysis Perspective

Carmela González Troncoso, Sandra Deepthy Siby, Narseo Vallina Rodriguez

Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup. Lookups are performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surveillance, and censorship. To address these issues, large organizations s ...

INTERNET SOC2020

Traffic Receipts for Network Transparency

Pavlos Nikolopoulos

Today's Internet is not transparent: when packets get lost or delayed, there is typically no information about where the problem occurred, hence no information about who is responsible. This results in Internet service providers (ISPs) offering service lev ...

EPFL2018

Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification ofWeb Downloads for the Masses

Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Mauro Cherubini, Bertil Chapuis, Alexandre Meylan

Internet users can download software for their computers from app stores (e.g., Mac App Store and Windows Store) or from other sources, such as the developers' websites. Most Internet users in the US rely on the latter, according to our representative stud ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Fog Orchestration for Internet of Things Services

Tao Lin, Jie Xu

Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) services such as healthcare, smart cities, and marine monitoring are pervasive in cyber-physical environments. These complex IoT services are increasingly composed of sensors, devices, and compute resources within fog c ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017

Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Connected Medical and Health Devices and Connected Vehicles

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IRGC organised in 2016 an expert workshop on 'Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits in the Internet of Things (IoT), applied to connected vehicles and medical devices. In those sectors, connectivity improves both safety and vulnerability, but cybersec ...

International Risk Governance Center2017

Privacy-preserving distributed collaborative filtering

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey

We propose a new mechanism to preserve privacy while leveraging user profiles in distributed recommender systems. Our mechanism relies on two contributions: (i) an original obfuscation scheme, and (ii) a randomized dissemination protocol. We show that our ...

Springer Wien2016

Trustworthy Cloud Storage

Maxime Augier

The Cloud trend is an attempt to leverage economics of scale in the domain of computing resources. Unfortunately, this often means losing control of the lower levels of a computer system, and exposing users to new threat vectors. These threats may be signi ...

EPFL2016

MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems

Michele Catasta

The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Collaborative Filtering

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey

We propose a new mechanism to preserve privacy while leveraging user profiles in distributed recommender systems. Our mechanism relies on (i) an original obfuscation scheme to hide the exact profiles of users without significantly decreasing their utility, ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Ad-blocking Games: Monetizing Online Content Under the Threat of Ad Avoidance

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Nevena Vratonjic, Jens Grossklags

Much of the Internet economy relies on online advertising for monetizing digital content: Users are expected to accept the presence of online advertisements in exchange for content being free. However, online advertisements have become a serious problem fo ...

2012

Enhancement of Geomatics Education by Using Internet Based Techniques

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Arnaud Deshogues

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has introduced the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) in 2005. Since then, the number of teachers and users has increased rapidly. With more than 350 active courses hosted on Moodle for this ...

2010

Memories of the world of the mountains

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Julien Pilet

This paper describes a particular book called Souvenirs du monde des montagnes, which draws its iconography from the history of a Swiss mountain family from 1910 to 1930. By simply dipping into the first few pages, the reader will be lost between real and ...

2009

Scalable Network-layer Defense Against Internet Bandwidth-Flooding Attacks

Aikaterini Argyraki

In a bandwidth-flooding attack, compromised sources send high-volume traffic to the target with the purpose of causing congestion in its tail circuit and disrupting its legitimate communications. In this paper, we present Active Internet Traffic Filtering ...

2009

Une nouvelle approche du Guide de l’enseignant

Jean-Louis Ricci

Comment mettre à disposition des enseignants les informations dont ils ont besoin pour bien enseigner au supérieur sans sombrer dans un guide de l’enseignant rébarbatif et indigeste. Après avoir cherché en vain quelque chose de convainquant, nous avons déc ...

TELECOM Bretagne2008

Reducing Internet Auction Fraud

Christopher Tucci

When it comes to online auctions, “caveat emptor” is an understatement. ...

Association for Computing Machinery2008