2026

Issue 1

• Towards Automated DNS Censorship Circumvention [PDF]
  Felix Lange (Paderborn University), Niklas Niere (Paderborn University), Juraj Somorovsky (Paderborn University)
• Extended Abstract: CensorAlert – Leveraging LLM Agents for Automated Censorship Report Aggregation and Analysis [PDF]
  Ali Zohaib (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jade Sheffey (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mingshi Wu (GFW Report), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• The Game Has Changed: Revisiting proxy distribution and game theory [PDF]
  Hassan Fares (University of Minnesota), Omkar Fulsundar (University of Minnesota), Nicholas Hopper (University of Minnesota)
• Dual Standards: Examining Content Moderation Disparities Between API and WebUI Interfaces in Large Language Models [PDF]
  Friedemann Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Moonis Ali (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Anja Feldmann (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Devashish Gosain (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
• Assemblage: Chipping Away at Censorship with Generative Steganography [PDF]
  Tushar M. Jois (City College of New York), Cora Rowena Ruiz (City College of New York), Gabriel Kaptchuk (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Geedge Cases: Censorship Measurement Insights from the Geedge Networks Leak [PDF]
  Jade Sheffey (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Zohaib (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mingshi Wu (GFW Report), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Architectural VPN Vulnerabilities, Disclosure Fatigue, and Structural Failures [PDF]
  William J. Tolley (Hampden-Sydney College), Everett Morse (Hampden-Sydney College), Gabriel Hogan (Washington & Lee University), Jeffrey Knockel (Bowdoin College), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University)
• Server, Client, or Relay? Dual-Role Detection of Circumvention Relays [PDF]
  Sultan Almutairi (North Carolina State University), Khaled Harfoush (North Carolina State University), Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University)
• Defending Messaging Apps Against Spyware Using Data Diodes [PDF]
  Peter Story (Clark University)

Issue 2

• On Russia’s Early Introduction of QUIC SNI Censorship [PDF]
  Nico Heitmann (Paderborn University), Niklas Niere (Paderborn University), Felix Graf Lange (Paderborn University), Juraj Somorovsky (Paderborn University)
• Fountain codes in censorship circumvention rendezvous [PDF]
  Eleanor Cawthon (University of California, Berkeley), David Fifield
• Beyond OS Trust Stores: TLS Trust in Russia’s Android Ecosystem [PDF]
  William J. Tolley (Hampden-Sydney College), Everett Morse (Hampden-Sydney College), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University)
• An Empirical Study of Backend Infrastructure in Leading Pakistani Mobile Apps [PDF]
  Sana Habib (Arizona State University/Washington and Lee University), Mohammad Taha Khan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University)
• Who Carries Tor? Measuring Bandwidth-Weighted Transit Concentration [PDF]
  Isabelle Wang (Smith College), Shinyoung Cho (Smith College)
• Gaps in the Record: On the Observability and Documentation of Internet Shutdowns [PDF]
  Simon Cheek (Georgia Institute of Technology), Zachary S. Bischof (Georgia Institute of Technology), Amanda Meng (Georgia Institute of Technology), Alberto Dainotti (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Insights into an Iranian Internet Shutdown [PDF]
  Anonymous (Paderborn University), Niklas Niere (Paderborn University), Felix Graf Lange (Paderborn University), Juraj Somorovsky (Paderborn University)
• Who Decides What Stays and Why? Participation, Authority, and Rationales in Chinese Wikipedia’s Deletion Discussions [PDF]
  Tianyu Gao (City University of New York), Ping Ji (City University of New York)