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New CS professor Jed Crandall and a research team at UC Davis have been studying the Chinese firewall, and getting noticed in places like Slashdot and on the BBC web site for their surprising findings. They found that contrary to expectations, the firewall did not always stop censored traffic at the border of the network.
Using ConceptDoppler, a kind of automated weather report tool for censorship, they tested various censored keywords from the Chinese wikipedia and discovered that on 28% of the tested network paths, the data made it through. They also noted that that filtering in general was most erratic when traffic was busy, and uncovered 122 blacklisted keywords.
Related links: Jed Crandall's home page; Slashdot; BBC; eWeek; Chinese wikipedia
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The Computer Science department is working on a number of intriguing grants, ranging from sensors keeping a virtual eye on volcanoes to human and avian influenzas to attack-resistant peer-to-peer systems.
Also being studied are self-regenerative enterprise systems, visualizing uncertainly, as well as working on new cancer treatments and models of animal behavior. Take a look at the grants overview for more information. Sponsors of these grants include the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the NIH, the NSF, and National Cancer Institute.
Related links: Grant Overview information; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; NIH; NSF; National Cancer Institute.
Jed Crandall started in August at the department as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Crandall's research area is computer security and computer architecture, ranging from architectural support for systems security to the capturing and analyzing of Internet worms. More recent work includes behavior-based analysis of malicious code—using a new technique called temporal search to detect timebombs within computer viruses based on their use of hardware timers—as well as work on semantic models of government censorship.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis
and his B.S. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.
Related links: Jed Crandall
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