Jade Sheffey
Jade Sheffey is a PhD student at SPIN (University of Massachusetts Amherst) working on Internet censorship measurement and circumvention. She was a contributing author to "Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China", and is currently researching other leaks from the Great Leaky Dam of China. After a long day of analyzing packets and data leaks for work, Jade goes home and analyzes packets and data leaks for fun.
Session
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is one of, if not arguably the most advanced Internet censorship systems in the world. Because repressive governments generally do not simply publish their censorship rules, the task of determining exactly what is and isn’t allowed falls upon the censorship measurement community, who run experiments over censored networks. In this talk, we’ll discuss two ways censorship measurement has evolved from passive experimentation to active attacks against the Great Firewall.