PUT 2019 : “Fearless, 1000 days and still running...”

THIS THOUGHT-PROVOKING SYMPOSIUM ORIGINATED IN A small conference organized at the London School of Economics by Government and Opposition and the papers printed here have been revised — in many cases extensively — by their authors in the light of the discussion there. With a single exception (Sir Arthur Knight) all the contributors are members of the Editorial Board or the Advisory Board of Government and Opposition, and the idea for the symposium was first put forward by one of the Editors, Professor Isabel de Madariaga.The central issue addressed in the symposium is the adequacy or otherwise of the sciences, natural and social, in providing the information required by people in various capacities — as citizens, business leaders, politicians, judges, and so on — if they are to act intelligently.

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Analyzing the Gold Star Scheme in a Split Tor Network

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering - Security and Privacy in Communication Networks ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-31909-9_5 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 77-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Benedikt Westermann ◽

Pern Hui Chia ◽

Dogan Kesdogan

Keyword(s):

Tor Network ◽

Gold Star

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Social media at #Coregonid2017: extending the reach of a small conference with Twitter and Periscope

Advances in Limnology ◽

10.1127/adv_limnol/2021/0082 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 ◽

pp. 13-22

Author(s):

Ellen George

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Small Conference

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Tor Network Detection By Using Machine Learning And Artificial Neural Network

10.1109/isncc52172.2021.9615730 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Murat Soykan ◽

Pinar Sarisaray Boluk

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Artificial Neural Network ◽

Artificial Neural ◽

Tor Network

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Introduction

Translocal Chinese East Asian Perspectives ◽

10.1163/24522015-01202006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 117-120

Author(s):

James Cheng

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Cultural Adaptation ◽

Mainland China ◽

Global Cities ◽

Research Papers ◽

Japanese Colonialism ◽

Marriage Migrants ◽

Small Conference ◽

Female Marriage

This issue contains three research articles and one obituary, which of them includes “Self-Initiated Expatriates: Taiwanese Migrant Professionals in China’s Global Cities” by Jianbang Deng, “Cultural Adaptation of Taiwanese Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong” by Lan-Hung Nora Chiang and Chia-Yuan Huang, “Settling Across the Strait of Taiwan under Japanese Colonialism (1895–1945)” by Leo Douw, and his another paper “Arif Dirlik (1940–2017) Obituary.” These four papers were invited to submit to the Translocal Chinese editorial board after a small conference entitling “Research on Taiwanese Overseas Qiaomin (台灣海外僑民之研究)” at Soochow University on 19 January 2018, but only two of them was accepted after blind peer review. Douw’s articles later joined this issue, which constructs a significantly common topic for the three research papers—Taiwanese Migration to Mainland China in Different Ages. Deng’s paper explores how about the transformation of Taiwanese migrants into self-initiated expatriates in China’s global cities. Chiang and Huang explain how successful the Taiwanese female marriage migrants in Hong Kong despite their ever much difficulties. Douw tells the distinct identities between Registered Taiwanese (台灣籍民) in China and Taiwanese Huaqiao (台灣華僑) in Taiwan.

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The potential harms of the Tor anonymity network cluster disproportionately in free countries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2011893117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 117 (50) ◽

pp. 31716-31721

Author(s):

Eric Jardine ◽

Andrew M. Lindner ◽

Gareth Owenson

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Illicit Drugs ◽

Network Cluster ◽

Political Conditions ◽

Anonymity Network ◽

Tor Network ◽

Using Data ◽

Services Use

The Tor anonymity network allows users to protect their privacy and circumvent censorship restrictions but also shields those distributing child abuse content, selling or buying illicit drugs, or sharing malware online. Using data collected from Tor entry nodes, we provide an estimation of the proportion of Tor network users that likely employ the network in putatively good or bad ways. Overall, on an average country/day, ∼6.7% of Tor network users connect to Onion/Hidden Services that are disproportionately used for illicit purposes. We also show that the likely balance of beneficial and malicious use of Tor is unevenly spread globally and systematically varies based upon a country’s political conditions. In particular, using Freedom House’s coding and terminological classifications, the proportion of often illicit Onion/Hidden Services use is more prevalent (∼7.8%) in “free” countries than in either “partially free” (∼6.7%) or “not free” regimes (∼4.8%).

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