the research attempted to discover the norms of translating taboo words and concepts after the islamic revolution in iran using toury’s (1995) framework for classification of norms. the corpus of the study composed of coelho’s novels between 1990 and 2005 and their persian translations which were prepared and analyzed manually to discover the norms. during both the selection of novels for trans...

Ultrasurf is a proxy-based program promoted for Internet censorship circumvention. This report gives a technical analysis of the Ultrasurf software and network. We present the results of reverse engineering the Ultrasurf client program, give an in-depth study of the known Ultrasurf network, especially those portions that interface in some way with the client or the Internet, and discuss network...

We present a game-theoretic analysis of optimal solutions for interactions between censors and censorship resistance systems (CRSs) by focusing on the data channel used by the CRS to smuggle clients’ data past the censors. This analysis leverages the inherent errors (false positives and negatives) made by the censor when trying to classify traffic as either non-circumvention traffic or as CRS t...