Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
11-28-2017
Publication Title
CoNEXT 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Abstract
Recent years have seen the Internet become a key vehicle for citizens around the globe to express political opinions and organize protests. This fact has not gone unnoticed, with countries around the world repurposing network management tools (e.g., URL iltering products) and protocols (e.g., BGP, DNS) for censorship. Previous work has focused on identifying how censorship is performed. However, there is no major studies to identify, at a global scale, the networks responsible for performing censorship. Also, repurposing network products for censorship can have unintended international impact, which we refer to as lcensorship leakagež. While there have been anecdotal reports of censorship leakage, there has yet to be a systematic study of censorship leakage at a global scale. In this paper, we combine a global censorship measurement platform (ICLab) with a general-purpose technique s boolean network tomography s to identify which AS on a network path is performing censorship. At a high-level, our approach exploits BGP churn to narrow down the set of potential censoring ASes by 97%. We identify 108 censoring ASes and ind that the censorship introduced by 32 of the 108 censoring ASes has an impact on users located outside of the jurisdiction of the censoring AS, resulting in the leaking of regional censorship policies.
Keywords
Boolean network tomography, Boolean satisiability, Censorship leakage, Internet censorship, Localization, Network measurement
First Page
81
Last Page
87
DOI
10.1145/3143361.3143386
Recommended Citation
Cho, Shinyoung; Razaghpanah, Abbas; Nithyanand, Rishab; and Gill, Phillipa, "A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship Using Network-Level Path Churn and Network Tomography" (2017). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/347
Comments
Author accepted manuscript.