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🎉🎉 Promoted to Associate Professor!
This milestone reflects years of hard work, research, and passion... times it felt like swimming against the current.
Big shoutout to my students, mentors, anti-censorship community, friends & family - couldn't have done it without you!
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👁️🎥Our latest Friday Night AI - "Rethinking Privacy in the Age of AI: Who’s Watching, Who’s Protecting?"- is now online!
Experts unpack the urgent questions around surveillance & #AI: Profs. @royaensafi, Florian Schaub, & @radamihalcea
youtube.com/watch?v=9pKT9Wtk…
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OMG! Summary of the 3rd Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Ask Me Anything (AMA) event
ooni.org/post/2025-omg/ ✨
View presentations & learn about updates and future plans from OONI, @CensoredPlanet, @MeasurementLab & @IODA_live! 🐙💫
#keepiton #OpenData #censorship
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CSE PhD student @diwenxue 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/…
…. Banned books … thanks @citizenlab 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
NEW @citizenlab.ca report out this morning! "Banned Books"
citizenlab.ca/2024/11/analys…
Our team found that found 17k+ products that were restricted by Amazon from being shipped to specific world regions, with the most common type of product being books
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🌍 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
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.@HarryOppy, Anna Ablove, and @royaensafi 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…
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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!
🚀 Announcing Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map! Explore latencies across 100+ cloud regions worldwide to track trends and changes across public clouds and regions. Try it free! 🌐
clm.kentik.com/
#CloudLatency #Kentik
kentik.com/blog/announcing-t…
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✨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." ⭐@vgcerf ⭐ #UMCSE #UMEECS
👉 Event details: cse.engin.umich.edu/event/im…
ALT Vint Cerf will give 22nd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture!
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⏳1 week left to apply to @OpenTechFund'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
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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 next week—find me if you'd like to chat!
RTs appreciated 🙏
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📢 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/Nat…
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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
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📢 Today, in collaboration w/ @DigitalEurasian & 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-kazakhsta…
• Russian: ooni.org/ru/post/2024-kazakh…
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Meet the BKC 24-25 fellows! @agrabeli_ is the long-time director of @OpenObservatory. 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
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NEW: I'm *very excited* to announce my forthcoming book, "Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy," with @SimonSchusterCA
Publication date: Feb 4, 2025!
Details (including pre-order information) below:
simonandschuster.ca/books/Ch…
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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/…
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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).
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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! 🎉
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Q&A: Recent research fellow, @levanhieu, who worked within Prof. @royaensafi’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/…