[tor-project] OONI Team status report May 2017

Thu Jun 15 15:01:41 UTC 2017

Arturo,

Any deliverables I should bill for?

Thanks,
Sue

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Arturo Filastò <art at torproject.org> wrote:

> # OONI Monthly Report: May 2017
>
> The OONI team made steady progress in May 2017.
>
> We released the beta version of our probe orchestration and, in
> collaboration
> with Sinar Project, we published a new research report on "The State of
> Internet Censorship in Indonesia". We also updated test lists in
> collaboration
> with our partners, and we started organizing OONI's upcoming Partner
> Gathering.
>
> ## Beta release of probe orchestration
>
> We made two beta releases of the probe orchestration backend:
> https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta.2.
>
> The probe orchestration client code is being integrated inside of v0.7.0 of
> measurement-kit here:
> https://github.com/measurement-kit/measurement-kit/pull/1250.
>
> This beta version of the backend is currently deployed
> (https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-sysadmin/pull/112) on staging
> machines
> and we are in the process of testing it in preparation of including a
> subset of
> orchestration inside of the next version of ooniprobe-mobile.
>
> The feature-set included in the current beta of the probe orchestration
> is the
> following:
>
> * Support for clients to register for receiving orchestration messages
> with a password
>
> * Authentication for orchestration clients and administrators
>
> * Support for updating metadata of probes via authentication
>
> * Support for sending push notifications to iOS (Apple Push
> Notifications) and Android (Firebase Cloud Messagging) devices
>
> * A web interface for administrators that allows them to:
>     - View the currently registered clients
>   - View the currently scheduled jobs
>   - Add new recurrent measurements based on the target probe
>
> In the first integration in ooniprobe-mobile we plan to only support probe
> registration and metadata update. This will allow us to send visibile push
> notification to send useful information messages to users, but without
> the full
> orchestration workflow.
>
> ## Research and improvements to reducing fingerprintability of ooniprobe
>
> We did a bit of research documenting what we are currently doing to
> reduce the
> fingerprintability of ooniprobe and what we could do better.
>
> As a result of this research we also added support for randomising the
> order in
> which URLs are tested (in ooniprobe desktop) to further reduce the
> fingerprint
> an ooniprobe scan has as well as improve the accuracy of measurement:
> https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/pull/758.
>
> ## Publication of research report
>
> In collaboration with Sinar Project, we published a new research report
> titled:
> "The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia".
>
> The full report can be found here:
> https://ooni.torproject.org/post/indonesia-internet-censorship/
>
> We also published a summary of the report on the Tor blog:
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/state-internet-censorship-indonesia
>
> ## Updated test lists
>
> In May 2017 we added URLs and updated the following test lists in
> collaboration
> with partners:
>
> * Iran test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/161
>
> * Cuba test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/170
>
> * Venezuela test list:
> https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/162,
> https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/158
>
> * Egypt test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/164
>
> ## Organizing upcoming OONI Partner Gathering
>
> We worked on logistics pertaining to the organization of OONI's first
> Partner
> Gathering, which will take place on 10th & 11th July 2017 in Toronto.
>
> ## Outreach and community engagement
>
> ### Events
>
> We presented OONI at the following events:
>
> CryptoRave (5th & 6th May 2017)
>
> We presented OONI and co-facilitated a workshop on test lists
> ("Listathona")
> with Coding Rights at CryptoRave. More information can be found here:
> https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-cryptorave-2017/.
>
> Tor Meeting at the Hacker Club Garoa (11th May 2017)
>
> Our team member in Brazil also facilitated an OONI session at the Hacker
> Club
> Garoa in Sao Paolo
> (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/
> CommunityTeam/Projects/GlobalSouth).
>
> Open Source Conference Albania/OSCAL (13th & 14th May 2017)
>
> We presented OONI through a 1-hour talk titled: "Free & Open Source
> Software
> for a Free & Open Internet". More information can be found here:
> https://eventyay.com/e/ecc2001a/schedule/
>
> ISC Project Global Workshop (25th & 26th May)
>
> We facilitated the following sessions at the ISC Project Global Workshop
> in Washington D.C:
>
> * 90-minute OONI demo
>
> * Contributing to test lists & using data from OONI Explorer
>
> * Measuring internet blackouts
>
> ### Community meeting
>
> We hosted our monthly community meeting on
> https://slack.openobservatory.org/
> on 23rd May 2017. As part of the meeting, we discussed filtering
> techniques for
> OONI Explorer, as well as methods for tracking internet shutdowns on mobile
> networks.
>
> ### Article
>
> We wrote and published an article about ooniprobe for Coding Rights'
> Antivigilancia newsletter:
> https://antivigilancia.org/es/2017/05/ooni-descubriendo-la-
> censura-en-internet/
>
> ## Press coverage
>
> An article about OONI was published on Motherboard:
> https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/come-tracciare-la-
> censura-di-internet-con-una-app?utm_source=mbfbit
>
> ## Userbase
>
> In May 2017 ooniprobe was run 70,218 times from 1,905 different vantage
> points across 162 countries around the world.
>
> This information can also be found through our stats here:
> https://measurements.ooni.torproject.org/stats
>
> ~ The OONI team.
>
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