Re: [tor-dev] Building an automatic censorship-detection system for Tor

2011-09-17 Thread Mansour Moufid
Apologies for breaking the thread, I didn't have the original message. >From the mentioned paper (which I've only skimmed): ``The deployed model considers a time interval of seven (7) days to model connection rates (i.e. $t_i - t_{i−1} = 7$ days).'' If I understand correctly, this means trends o

Re: [tor-dev] Building an automatic censorship-detection system for Tor

2011-09-16 Thread Steven Murdoch
Hi Karsten, On 14 Sep 2011, at 07:17, Karsten Loesing wrote: > However, as one can see, George's script also detects quite a few false > positives. Whenever there's a red or blue dot, the script would have > issued a warning for a human to check. It would be neat to reduce these > false warnings

[tor-dev] Building an automatic censorship-detection system for Tor

2011-09-13 Thread Karsten Loesing
In the past years we observed sudden drops in Tor usage in certain countries. Some of these events may be attributed to countries specifically wanting to block Tor, as it enables their citizens to circumvent their censorship infrastructure. Other events likely result from country-wide Internet ou