Apurva Virkud (@avirkud4) 's Twitter Profile
Apurva Virkud

@avirkud4

phd student @IllinoisCS, previously: security research @censoredplanet, umich ‘20

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Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My team is working to shed light on the VPN ecosystem with the support of Consumer Reports Digital Lab. Are you #VPN user? 👋 Tell us about your VPN experiences and needs with this anonymous survey: vpnalyzer.org/user-survey

My team is working to shed light on the VPN ecosystem with the support of <a href="/ConsumerReports/">Consumer Reports</a> Digital Lab. 

Are you #VPN user? 👋 Tell us about your VPN experiences and needs with this anonymous survey:  

vpnalyzer.org/user-survey
reethika (@reethika_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This study is part of the VPNalyzer project which we’re building to do a methodical investigation into VPNs. We're looking to build a reliable community of users who share our goal of improving the VPN ecosystem✨if that sounds like you, pls join our list: forms.gle/KanYvDdRALZHBC…

Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let's celebrate Censored Planet 3 years of operation with our team sharing our progress, new data, and lessons-learned. 📢📢 also announcing new and exciting capabilities for the community!!! Join us: Monday, Oct 4, 10 - 11:30 AM ET Register: censoredplanet.org/webinar2021

Let's celebrate <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> 3 years of operation with our team sharing our progress, new data, and lessons-learned.

📢📢 also announcing new and exciting capabilities for the community!!!

Join us: Monday, Oct 4, 10 - 11:30 AM ET 
Register: censoredplanet.org/webinar2021
Ram (@ramakrishnan13s) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are holding the Censored Planet community webinar tomorrow (October 4) from 10:00 - 11:30 AM ET. Join us to learn more about Censored Planet and our recent work! 📢Register here to attend the event: censoredplanet.org/webinar2021

We are holding the <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> community webinar tomorrow (October 4) from 10:00 - 11:30 AM ET. Join us to learn more about Censored Planet and our recent work! 

📢Register here to attend the event: censoredplanet.org/webinar2021
Ram (@ramakrishnan13s) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks a lot to everyone who attended the Censored Planet Community Webinar. We enjoyed all the great discussion!🙏 Looking forward to more amazing work in this area!🙌

Thanks a lot to everyone who attended the <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> Community Webinar. We enjoyed all the great discussion!🙏

Looking forward to more amazing work in this area!🙌
Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I just announced the alpha release of Censored Planet's dashboard at #off21 developed in collaboration with Jigsaw. It enables quick, interactive visualizations for our 3 years of data and counting. We look forward to working with collaborators that can benefit from this tool!

I  just announced the alpha release of <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a>'s dashboard at #off21 developed in collaboration with <a href="/Jigsaw/">Jigsaw</a>. It enables quick, interactive visualizations for our 3 years of data and counting. We look forward to working with collaborators that can benefit from this tool!
Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you missed Censored Planet Community Webinar, we just uploaded a recorded version. In this talk, Ram Apurva Virkud Elisa Tsai @_aagixIcover and I cover how Censored Planet works as well as new ways to access our data and future directions. youtube.com/watch?v=v5G_nU…

Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢📢Censored Planet is running a qualitative study exploring the needs and challenges of censorship data users, in order to better equip the next generation of censorship platforms. Are you a censorship data user?👋Please take our quick prescreening: censoredplanet.org/userstudy/pres…

📢📢<a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> is running a qualitative study exploring the needs and challenges of censorship data users, in order to better equip the next generation of censorship platforms. 
 
Are you a censorship data user?👋Please take our quick prescreening: censoredplanet.org/userstudy/pres…
reethika (@reethika_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Super excited that my research, VPNalyzer, which has been over two years in the making, was featured in two Consumer Reports 📢 articles and a white paper released today! 🎉 Read more: 🧵 consumerreports.org/vpn-services/s…

Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Apply to join Censored Planet as a 2022 Open Technology Fund ICFP Fellow: censoredplanet.org/icfp22 This is a unique opportunity to work on interesting and impactful problems. We are accepting applications from diverse backgrounds. Feel free to reach out to me

Apply to join <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> as a 2022 <a href="/OpenTechFund/">Open Technology Fund</a> ICFP Fellow:
censoredplanet.org/icfp22

This is a unique opportunity to work on interesting and impactful problems. We are accepting applications from diverse backgrounds.

Feel free to reach out to me
Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👉👉Today NDSS Symposium, reethika is presenting VPNalyzer, our system that enables automated testing of VPNs for important security, privacy features. She discusses our system design, current deployed tests + results of our investigation into 80 VPNs. ​​#NDSS2022 (1/n)

👉👉Today <a href="/NDSSSymposium/">NDSS Symposium</a>, <a href="/reethika_/">reethika</a>  is presenting VPNalyzer, our system that enables automated testing of VPNs for important security, privacy features.  She discusses our system design, current deployed tests + results of our investigation into 80 VPNs. ​​#NDSS2022 (1/n)
Roya Ensafi (@royaensafi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢Online content providers increasingly differentiate between users based on network features like geolocation. We launched the Internet splintering project to investigate this. Have you faced blocking by online services?👋Tell us about your experiences: splintering.net/usersurvey

📢Online content providers increasingly differentiate between users based on network features like geolocation. We launched the Internet splintering project to investigate this.

Have you faced blocking by online services?👋Tell us about your experiences: 
splintering.net/usersurvey
Ram (@ramakrishnan13s) 's Twitter Profile Photo

RightsCon Censored Planet Thank you to everyone who attended our session, and for the amazing questions and suggestions! We look forward to improving our dashboard and contributing more to the community! Also, with regards to what we should do next, Roya Ensafi, I told you so 😛

<a href="/rightscon/">RightsCon</a> <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> Thank you to everyone who attended our session, and for the amazing questions and suggestions! We look forward to improving our dashboard and contributing more to the community! Also, with regards to what we should do next, <a href="/royaensafi/">Roya Ensafi</a>, I told you so 😛
Ram (@ramakrishnan13s) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today at #FOCI2023, I will be presenting our work on identifying key challenges in censorship data analysis and building Censored Planet tools to resolve them. This work is a collaboration between researchers Censored Planet and Jigsaw. Read our paper: censoredplanet.org/assets/censors…

Today at #FOCI2023, I will be presenting our work on identifying key challenges in censorship data analysis and building <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a>  tools to resolve them. This work is a collaboration between researchers <a href="/CensoredPlanet/">Censored Planet</a> and <a href="/Jigsaw/">Jigsaw</a>. Read our paper: censoredplanet.org/assets/censors…
Ram (@ramakrishnan13s) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In this joint work with Apurva Virkud, ohnosaurus, Vinicius Fortuna and Roya Ensafi, we build and release the Censored Planet data analysis pipeline and accompanying public data exploration dashboard! You can try out the dashboard right now: dashboard.censoredplanet.org

Apurva Virkud (@avirkud4) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am in Philadelphia this week attending USENIX Security! I will be presenting our paper “How does Endpoint Detection use the MITRE ATT&CK Framework?” Details in thread ⬇️ #usesec24