Spying on the browser: dissecting the design of malicious extensions

8 Network Security May 2011 circumnavigation talk, and also assumes that usage is only taking place in areas of pervasive filtering. It does not, for example, allow for the many people who will use such tools in less filtered countries to access video content on sites that restrict it to domestic users for copyright reasons. Many people use HotspotShield to get to video sites such as Hulu or to use the BBC’s iPlayer, for example. Perhaps, in the broader scheme of things, most residents of heavily censored countries are happy to use those countries’ own versions of western tools such as search engines and social networks. For freedom of speech and anti-censorship activists, the biggest challenge may not be technical – it may be convincing others to care.