Censorship Chokepoints: New Battlegrounds for Regional Surveillance, Censorship and Influence on the Internet

Undoubtedly, the Internet has become one of the most important conduits to information for the general public. Nonetheless, Internet access can be and has been limited systematically or blocked completely during political events in numerous countries and regions by various censorship mechanisms...

R1dacted: Investigating Local Censorship in DeepSeek'S R1 Language Model

DeepSeek recently released R1, a high-performing large language model LLM optimized for reasoning tasks. Despite its efficient training pipeline, R1 achieves competitive performance, even surpassing leading reasoning models like OpenAI's o1 on several benchmarks. However, emerging reports suggest...

Steering the CensorShip: Uncovering Representation Vectors for LLM "Thought" Control

Large language models LLMs have transformed the way we access information. These models are often tuned to refuse to comply with requests that are considered harmful and to produce responses that better align with the preferences of those who control the models. To understand how this "censorship...

Apple Removes VPN Apps from Russian App Store Amid Government Pressure

Apple removed a number of virtual private network VPN apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia's state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported. This includes the mobile apps of 25 VPN service providers, including Hidemy.name VPN, L...

Tuta Mail (Tutanota) Accuses Google of Censoring Its Search Results

By Deeba Ahmed Shadowboxing in Search Results: Tuta Mail De-ranked and Disappearing on Google! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tuta Mail Tutanota Accuses Google of Censoring Its Search Results...

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms...

A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2023-f73b2bc240)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2023-36344fb44b)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Minter can censor GATEKEEPER and mint uncollateralized for a prolonged period of time

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Ethena explicitly mentions their protection against a compromised minter, the mentioned maximum loss is $100.000. The protection against a compromised minter rests on the GATEKEEPER role which is a system running on AWS set to remove the minter if mints...

‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ Players Hit With Worm Malware

Plus: Russia tightens social media censorship, new cyberattack reporting rules for US companies, and Google Street View returns to Germany...

Meet Anthalon, fighting for freedom of the press

By Owais Sultan In todays world, censorship and suppression of free speech are rampant in many parts of the globe. Governments… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meet Anthalon, fighting for freedom of the press...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2023-1254a1fc28)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2023 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2023-c290171664)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2023 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

WhatsApp Subverts Censorship with New Proxy Feature

By Habiba Rashid The new feature is specifically meant to help people maintain access to WhatsApp even if they are living in a repressive regime where internet shutdowns are common. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp Subverts Censorship with New Proxy Feature...

Hackers turn to Signal, Telegram and Dark Web to assist Iranian protestors

By Waqas Hackers are actively using encrypted chat apps like Signal and Telegram to share stolen data belonging to the Iranian government, tutorials on how to hack, and use VPNs and Tor to bypass censorship. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers turn to Signal, Telegram...

Hackers Aid Protests Against Iranian Government with Proxies, Leaks and Hacks

Several hacktivist groups are using Telegram and other tools to aid anti-government protests in Iran to bypass regime censorship restrictions amid ongoing unrest in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini in custody. "Key activities are data leaking and selling, including officials' phone...

TikTok owner ByteDance pushed a pro-China agenda to Americans, say former employees

Controversy over supposed pro-China messaging in apps from TikTok owner Bytedance continues to grow. Tales are emerging relating to a now shelved app called TopBuzz. Former employees have spoken to BuzzFeed, making claims of both pro-China content promotion and forms of censorship elsewhere...

How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship

Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tor (FEDORA-2022-456b252727)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...