Basic metrics for evaluation
The evaluation of every tools will expose their strengths and weaknesses in a way that cannot be summarised in a list of checkpoints.
For every tool we will also keep in mind the following check list for properties that tools should have:
- Is the tool Open Source?
- Is the data collected made public?
- Is the data format that is used for publication easy to interact with?
- Are the methodologies explained?
- Is the tool to be used by the general public?
- If so, is the user warned of possible risks that he may incur when running the tool?
- Does the data collected by the tool include potentially sensitive information?
More broad questions that should be answered when evaluating tools are:
- What kind of tests does the tool perform?
- How accurate are the tests?
- What claims does the tool make?
- Are the claims satisfied?
- How does the reporting system work?
- Is confidentiality and integrity of data being reported maintained?
- What are its strengths?
- What are its weaknesses?
Censorship detection tools
- Website: https://alkasir.com/
- Download: https://alkasir.com/downloads
- Source code:
- Website: http://www.herdict.org/
- Download: Not relevant
- Source code:
- Website: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/403checker/
- Download: The links in the websites that talk about 403 checked point to a dead link.
- Source code:
Traffic manipulation tools
- Webpage: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/
- Download page:
- Source code:
- Webpage: http://projectbismark.net/
- Download: https://github.com/projectbismark/
- Source code: https://github.com/projectbismark/
- Webpage: http://www.neubot.org/
- Download: http://www.neubot.org/download
- Source code: https://github.com/neubot/neubot