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India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection: by Divyank Katira — published Apr 04, 2024 — last modified Apr 04, 2024 02:20 PM
We analyse a child-monitoring app being developed by the Indian government and question whether it is an effective way to enact parental controls. We highlight how such monitoring apps are often repurposed for digital stalking and play a role in intimate partner violence. We also evaluate the protection provided by antivirus tools in detecting such stalkerware apps and describe how we collected technical evidence to help improve the detection of these apps.
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DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship: by Divyank Katira — published Jan 25, 2024 — last modified Jan 25, 2024 11:19 AM
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Detecting Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Blocking: by Divyank Katira — published Sep 05, 2023 — last modified Sep 05, 2023 12:10 PM
A new internet protocol makes it harder for internet service providers to censor websites. We made a technical intervention to check if censors are interfering with its deployment.
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Security of Open Source Software : A Survey of Technical Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Actions: by Divyank Katira — published Apr 13, 2023
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Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in Software: by Divyank Katira — published Apr 13, 2023 — last modified Apr 13, 2023 05:47 AM — filed under: Openness
Dividing and breaking up a software project into smaller modules with functionality that can be reused to build other software is an increasingly common practice in software development today. We examine our infrastructural dependence on reuse of open-source software (OSS) components, examine the unique security risks posed by the widespread reuse of code, and survey systemic solutions to securing code reuse.
Located in Openness
Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse.pdf: by Divyank Katira — published Apr 12, 2023
Located in Openness
CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India: by Divyank Katira — published Mar 14, 2023 — last modified Mar 15, 2023 11:58 AM
Results from a nation-wide empirical study on web censorship
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Comments on InDEA 2.0: by Divyank Katira — published Mar 22, 2022
Located in Internet Governance
Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine Certificates: by Divyank Katira — published Aug 03, 2021 — last modified Aug 03, 2021 05:13 AM — filed under: Privacy, Digital ID, Covid19, Appropriate Use of Digital ID
We examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
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cis-mozilla-doh-trr: by Divyank Katira — published Jan 19, 2021
Located in Internet Governance

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