Russia's Sovereign RuNet was designed to build a Russian national firewall. Previous
anecdotes and isolated events in the past two years reflected centrally coordinated censorship …

Global events affect the Internet in new ways every day, be it through increased blocking
during sensitive events or through user tracking, surveillance, and targeting. Governments, …

Starting from Windows 11, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 has become a computer
requirement, providing hardware-based security capabilities. This poses a challenge to …

The rapid expansion of the internet has not only revolutionized global access to information,
but has led to the widespread implementation of internet censorship by governments and …

In today’s use of the internet it is popular to obfuscate the originating Internet Protocol (IP)
address to the receiving end of the internet connection. This can be achieved by using an …

State actors around the world censor the HTTPS protocol to block access to certain websites.
While many circumvention strategies utilize the TCP layer only little emphasis has been …

This paper investigates the operational patterns and forensic traceability of Bitcoin mixing
services, which pose significant challenges to anti-money laundering efforts. We analyze …

… On the same day, internet user ValdikSS disclosed that the relaxed regular expression
matching rule *t.co* was being used, which caused considerable collateral damage [34] to non-…

… The fingerprint was found in Snowflake captures from ValdikSS in 20216, and was not found
in the non-snowflake capture7 from the same time. The fingerprint was also found by joining …

HTTPS composes large parts of today’s Internet traffic and has long been subject to censorship
efforts in different countries. While censors analyze the Transport Layer Security (TLS) …