Search for dissertations about: "circumvention"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word circumvention.

2. 1. Breaking digital firewalls : analyzing internet censorship and circumvention in the arab world

   Author : Walid Al-saqaf; Stig-Arne Nohrstedt; Åke Grönlund; Naomi Sakr; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Internet censorship; filtering; circumvention; Alkasir; Arab Spring; free speech; liberation technology; authoritarianism; freedom of expression; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the role of Internet censorship and circumvention in the Arab world as well as Arabs’ views on the limits to free speech on the Internet.The project involves the creation of an Internet censorship circumvention tool named Alkasir that allows users to report and access certain types of censored websites. READ MORE

4. 2. Measuring and circumventing Internet censorship

   Author : Philipp Winter; Stefan Lindskog; Joss Wright; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; tor; censorship; circumvention; anonymity; Computer Science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : An ever increasing amount of governments, organisations, and companies employ Internet censorship in order to filter the free flow of information.  These efforts are supported by an equally increasing number of companies focusing on the development of filtering equipment.Only what these entities consider right can pass the filters. READ MORE

5. 3. Digital Rights Management - the New Copyright

   Author : Kristoffer Schollin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Copyright; IT-law; Intellectual property; Digital rights management; DRM; TPM;

   Abstract : DRM – DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT is a wide term that covers many forms of technological schemes for controlling access, use and distribution of creative works – from the blunt and static restrictions on copy-protected Compact Discs to the sophisticated and fluid usage-rules in online music- and movie-stores such as iTunes. DRM technologies have been created and designed in response to a social development where global, digital networks are putting serious pressure on traditional distribution channels. READ MORE

6. 4. Enhancing Censorship Resistance in the Tor Anonymity Network

   Author : Philipp Winter; Stefan Lindskog; Simone Fischer-Hübner; Steven Murdoch; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; tor; censorship; anonymity; network; Computer Science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : BaksidestextThe Tor network was originally designed as low-latency anonymity network.However, as the years progressed, Tor earned a reputation as also being a useful tool to circumvent Internet censorship. At times, the network counted 30,000 users only from China. READ MORE

7. 5. A Treatise on Measuring Wiener-Granger Causality

   Author : Mehrdad Jafari-Mamaghani; Joanna Tyrcha; Sebastiano Stramaglia; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Wiener-Granger causality; Information theory; Kernel canonical correlation; Systems Microscopy; Cell migration.; Mathematical Statistics; matematisk statistik;

   Abstract : Wiener-Granger causality is a well-established concept of causality based on stochasticity and the flow of time, with applications in a broad array of quantitative sciences. The majority of methods used to measure Wiener-Granger causality are based on linear premises and hence insensitive to non-linear signals. READ MORE