1 2010 Circumvention Tool Usage Report
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† Each co-author is affiliated with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Hal Roberts is a fellow; Ethan Zuckerman is a senior researcher; Jillian York is a staff member; Robert Faris is the director of research; and John Palfrey is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center. We gratefully acknowledge support for this research from the U.S. Department of State via a subgrant through Internews Network (USA).
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