The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more...

A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship

With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals...

Fighting online censorship, or, encryption's latest surprise use-case, with Mallory Knodel: Lock and Code S04E05

Government threats to end-to-end encryption--the technology that secures your messages and shared photos and videos--have been around for decades, but the most recent threats to this technology are unique in how they intersect with a broader, sometimes-global effort to control information on the...

WhatsApp Introduces Proxy Support to Help Users Bypass Internet Censorship

Popular instant messaging service WhatsApp has launched support for proxy servers in the latest version of its Android and iOS apps, letting users circumvent government-imposed censorship and internet shutdowns. "Choosing a proxy enables you to connect to WhatsApp through servers set up by...

WhatsApp Launches a Proxy Tool to Fight Internet Censorship

Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online...

Russia Is Quietly Ramping Up Its Internet Censorship Machine

Since Vladimir Putin blocked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in March, Russia has been pushing away from the global internet at a rapid pace...

How Internet Censorship Affects You – Pros and Cons

By Owais Sultan Internet censorship limits or restricts your online activity preventing you from accessing certain content on the internet. Read… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Internet Censorship Affects You – Pros and Cons...

Russia’s Internet Censorship Machine Is Going After Tor

The attempt to block the site, which helps users mask their online activity, is the latest step in the country's efforts to control the internet...

Russia Blocks Tor Privacy Service in Latest Censorship Move

Russia has stepped up its censorship efforts in the country by fully blocking access to the Tor web anonymity service, coinciding with the ban of six virtual private network VPN operators, as the government continues its efforts to control the internet and crack down on attempts to circumvent...

Web Censorship Systems Can Facilitate Massive DDoS Attacks

Researchers are warning internet censorship systems are ripe for abuse by a new type of distributed denial of service DDoS attack. The potential for abuse is concerning, researchers say, because attacks would take advantage of a type of reflection and amplification, which would be “extremely...

Russia May Have Found a New Way to Censor the Internet

In an attempt to silence Twitter, the Kremlin appears to have developed novel techniques to restrict online content...

Top 10 worst countries for Internet freedom & censorship

By Sudais Asif Internet censorship is a tool used by governments around the world and here are the top 10 countries being worst at it. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top 10 worst countries for Internet freedom & censorship...

National Censorship: Pros and Cons

By David Balaban Is Internet filtering at the state level good or bad? As always, there are different opinions. I do not want to give a definite answer to this question now. On the one hand, the degree of filtering and the profile of filtering can be different, on the other hand, partly the answe...

Almost Every Major Free VPN Service is a Glorified Data Farm

By John Mason If you are a VPN user it is time to come out from the myth that every VPN is here to secure your privacy. Internet censorship is on the rise, and data from Freedom on the Net, based on an annual assessment of the situation of Internet freedom in 65 countries, reveals that not only …...

Google Secretly Planning to Launch a Censored Search Engine in China

After an eight-year-long absence from the most populated country in the world, Google search is going to dramatically make a comeback in China. Google is reportedly planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that is going to blacklist certain websites and search terms to...

Russia to Fine Search Engines for Linking to Banned VPN services

In its years-long efforts to censor the Internet by blocking access to a large number of websites in the country, Russia has now approved a new bill introducing fines for search engines that provide links to banned sites, VPN services, and anonymization tools. VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, a...

Russia to Fine Search Engines for Linking to Banned VPN services

In its years-long efforts to censor the Internet by blocking access to a large number of websites in the country, Russia has now approved a new bill introducing fines for search engines that provide links to banned sites, VPN services, and anonymization tools. VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, a...

Network Interference Detection Tool: ooniprobe

OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software FL/OSS to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in...

China Shuts Down Popular VPN Services to Make Great Firewall Stronger

Online Privacy has been one of the biggest challenges in today's interconnected world, as the governments across the world have been found censoring the Internet, stealing information and conducting mass surveillance on innocent people. China is one such nation which always wanted to have a tight...

ooniprobe - Measure Internet Censorship & Speed

Interested in collecting evidence of Internet censorship? Curious about the speed and performance of the network that you are using? By running the tests in this app, you will examine the following: Blocking of websites Presence of systems that could be responsible for censorship and/or...