Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia

Paper (NDSS’20) / Report

Unlike other censoring countries such as China, not much is known about Russia’s censorship practices. We collaborated with activists and developed new measurement methods to capture the information control ecosystem of Russia. We published a peer-reviewed paper in NDSS’20, which was covered by 80+ news agencies globally: AP / ABC / CPJ / China News / Taiwan News

Censored Planet

Project Site

To protect freedom of speech, there must be a way to detect if something has been censored. Censored Planet uses remote measurement techniques to collect and publish censorship data for more than 150 countries, enabling detection of surreptitious censorship such as in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan.

ISP-Scale DDoS Mitigation
Poster (UMich UROP Symposium)

Internet service providers are susceptible to DDoS attacks, leading to user downtimes and network congestion. We worked with real-world Internet traffic data, coming from Merit’s 4000 miles of Internet fiber-optic infrastructure, to explore DNS-side DDoS detection and enhance the existing network monitoring software.

Voting Machine Forensic Analysis
Report

Wiped voting machines can be found on online shopping platforms such as eBay, possibly to recover some election costs. We tore apart a used WinVote and iVotronic for forensic analysis. Our work was covered by UMich News.