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The Threat of State-Level Surveillance Using HTTPS Interception

by Ashley Lulling | May 5, 2025 | Research Updates

HTTPS interception—or “HTTPS eavesdropping”—is a surveillance method in which a malicious actor obtains a rogue certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA), circumventing traditional protection mechanisms for internet communications. The rogue certificate can be...

How China is Poaching Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry to Power Its Digital Authoritarianism: A Supply Chain Analysis

by Ashley Lulling | Apr 16, 2025 | Research Updates

During his year-long Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP), Chiang Min-yen explored the development of AI chips in China, reviewing the intersection of Chinese digital totalitarianism and emerging trends of AI chips—with a view from the global supply chain....

A Silent, Silencing Industry: The Growing Market of Human-Powered Censorship in China

by Ashley Lulling | Mar 14, 2025 | Research Updates

New research from an Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) fellow—who is remaining anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the research—illustrates how censorship in China has evolved into a sizable and complex industry comprising an...

China’s New Effort to Achieve Cyber Sovereignty

by Wes Appler | Nov 12, 2024 | Research Updates

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is selectively and non-uniformly implementing  Real-Name Registration (RNR) policies that are designed to chill discourse and encourage self-censorship on digital platforms. In the new report Blocked by Numbers: The Impact of...

CryptoSluice: Privacy-Preserving Identification of Apps with Poor Transport Layer Security

by Ashley Lulling | May 14, 2024 | Research Updates

Online users engaging with apps face a range of threats related to bad actors monitoring or modifying their internet flows, including surveillance, targeted attacks, and censorship. Although researchers can help by identifying misbehaving apps with poor cryptography...

An Analysis of Essential Latin American Mobile Apps

by Ashley Lulling | Jan 9, 2024 | Research Updates

ICFP Fellow Beau Kujath collaborated with The Citizen Lab and SocialTIC on this research project. Key Findings from Researchers A cellular management app from Mexican telecommunications giant MiTelcel consistently fetches images and JSON files for the splash...
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