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Characterizing Large-scale Routing Anomalies: A Case Study of the China Telecom Incident

In April 2010, China Telecom’s network announced incorrect paths to 50,000 IP prefixes, referred to as a “hijack”. The politically sensitive nature of some of the IP prefixes that were hijacked brought this incident to the attention of the US government. It raises many important questions about how we characterize and reason about large-scale routing incidents when they occur.

2012 CyberWatch Year in Review: Middle East and North Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

Our assessment of events that took place in 2012 has found that freedom of expression continues to be under threat in these parts of the world, although some progress has been made in certain countries. This review discusses trends in cyber attacks, changing legal norms, social media use, technological development, censorship and filtering, and arrests of rights activists.

Barriers to Broadcasting on the Internet

Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Visiting Research Fellow in International Broadcasting Karl Kathuria wrote an article discussing the issues facing broadcasters online.