censorship-circumvention

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy·17 min

• IEEE SP
• Community
• Date: 2025
• Location: Ieee Sp

Industry experts analyze emerging threats surrounding SoK: Towards Grounding Censorship Circumvention in Empiricism.

Main Stage·19 min

• DEF CON
• Privacy
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Robert Menes

Robert Menes explores resilient off-grid communication technologies, physical sneakernets, and local PirateBox nodes operating under heavy censorship.

Main Stage·43 min

• DEF CON
• Privacy
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Roger Dingledine

Tor Project co-founder Roger Dingledine shares operational war stories, censorship battles, and technical milestones from two decades of developing the Tor network.

Main Stage·41 min

• DEF CON
• Privacy
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Benjamin Mixon-Baca

Analyzes the technical architecture of Russia's TSPU deep packet inspection censorship firewall and presents novel evasion techniques for circumvention.

Main Stage·42 min

• DEF CON
• Privacy
• Date: Aug 2024
• Location: Las Vegas

Silvia Puglisi · Roger Dingledine

Methodologies and metrics for monitoring Tor network health, detecting censorship events, and maintaining user privacy.

Main Stage·47 min

• DEF CON
• Privacy
• Date: Aug 2022
• Location: Las Vegas

Roger Dingledine

Tor Project co-founder Roger Dingledine analyzes Russia's nationwide Tor censorship apparatus (TSPU) and how pluggable transports fight back.

Main Stage·55 min

• DEF CON
• Community
• Date: Jul 2001
• Location: Las Vegas

Cult of the Dead Cow

Cult of the Dead Cow explores activism panel: announcing peekabooty at DEF CON 9, examining hacktivism and practical defenses.

Main Stage·1 hr 3 min

• DEF CON
• Privacy
• Date: Jul 2000
• Location: Las Vegas

Bennett Haselton

Bennett Haselton explores a protocol using steganography to circumvent censorship at DEF CON 8, examining steganography and practical defenses.