Subverting national internet censorship-an investigation into existing tools and techniques
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University
Place of Publication
Perth, Western Australia
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science / Centre for Security Research
RAS ID
6085
Abstract
The announcement of a trial of a National level internet filter in Australia has caused renewed interest in the arena of internet censorship. Whilst details on the schemes being tested have been fairly sparse the announcement of the trial itself, has drawn wide condemnation from privacy advocates throughout the world. Given this announcement it was decided to test and compare three of the most popular free tools available that allow for the bypassing of internet censorship devices such as those used within China. Tests were conducted using three software packages, Freegate, GPass and GTunnel which were analysed through packet capture to determine their likely effectiveness against the speculated methods to be employed by the Australian trials. The tests clearly showed that all three applications provide an easy means of subverting any likely filtering method with GPass and GTunnel the more suitable candidates as Freegate still allowed for plain-text DNS requests.
DOI
10.4225/75/57b275c540c c1
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Smart, J., Tedeschi, K., Meakins, D., Hannay, P., & Bolan, C. (2008, December). Subverting National Internet Censorship-An Investigation into existing Tools and Techniques. In proceedings of the 6th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia. Available here