USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) Talks & Presentations

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Global Network Interference Detection Over the RIPE Atlas Network

Exploring censorship measurement using RIPE Atlas platform. Proposes methods for monitoring vital services, balancing timeliness, diversity, and cost. Investigates blocking events in Turkey and Russia, revealing new forms of interference.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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ReClaim - A Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Social Network

Explore ReClaim, a decentralized social network that prioritizes privacy through homomorphic encryption and peer-to-peer connections, enabling secure communication and data sharing without centralized control.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Facade - High-Throughput, Deniable Censorship Circumvention Using Web Search

Explores a novel censorship circumvention technique using web search terms to encode hidden messages, balancing deniability and performance for improved internet freedom.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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An Internet with BRICS Characteristics - Data Sovereignty and the Balkanisation of the Internet

Explores BRICS countries' approaches to data sovereignty, examining their participation in internet governance forums and analyzing potential risks of different interpretations on global internet structure.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Towards a Comprehensive Picture of the Great Firewall's DNS Censorship

Comprehensive analysis of China's Great Firewall DNS censorship, revealing its structure, blacklist, and response patterns through probes from inside and outside the country.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Symmetric Disclosure - A Fresh Look at K-Anonymity

Explores k-anonymity in social networks, proposing "symmetric disclosure" to reduce overhead in sparse networks by having both parties specify origin and target sets for communication.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Counting Packets Sent Between Arbitrary Internet Hosts

Technique to infer packet exchanges between Internet hosts using side-channel measurements on Linux machines, applicable to ICMP, UDP, and TCP connections without requiring idle hosts.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Insights into Mathematics

Quadratic Curvature for Algebraic Curves - Differential Geometry Lecture 14

Explores quadratic curvature for algebraic curves, extending from parabolas to general conics. Discusses connections between curvature and foci, emphasizing the power of formulas in differential geometry.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video